The Faculty of Social and Environmental Studies trains and empowers future national and international leading social scientists to create a sustainable society that embodies respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, social and economic justice, democracy, and peace. This vision inspires the Faculty to achieve excellence in its teaching and research programmes and to be recognized as the first choice provider of high quality education and research in social sciences in the region and wider.

The mission of the Faculty of Social and Environmental Studies is to advance knowledge of the social and cultural dynamics of ecological sustainability. It does so through interdisciplinary research and scholarship, teaching, and outreach focused on socio-economic policy, environmental awareness, communication, and decision making, in productive interaction with government, business, non-governmental organizations and citizens, locally, regionally, and internationally. The Faculty is committed in providing comprehensive visionary social scientists and stimulating knowledge-culture atmosphere in Sudan founded on academic excellence and the principles of environmental justice and sustainability.

The well being of natural and human communities provides the academic and moral compass for the Faculty of Social and Environmental Studies and is reflected in its responsive curriculum. The Faculty conducts its portfolio of programmes driven by its identified values in its quest for the achievement of the vision. These values encompass respect for all stakeholders at all times, highest level of integrity, ethical and professional culture through the rigorous pursuit of excellence, provision of support and care to all students and staff, and fostering scholarship and collegiality that support positive contribution to society.

The Faculty of Social and Environmental Studies offers undergraduate programmes in four years leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Science Honours (BSc Hons) as follows:

• Bachelor of Science Honours in Applied Economics (BSc Hons Applied Economics).
• Bachelor of Science Honours in Environmental Studies (BSc Hons Environmental Studies).
• Bachelor of Science Honours in Sociology (BSc Hons Sociology).
• Bachelor of Science Honours in Media and Communications Studies (BSc Hons Media and Communications Studies).

The programme is designed to equip all students in the first two years (semesters one to four) with the most important basic skills labour market entrants need. This includes the following: hall choose to sit for any of the four degrees mentioned above, where he/she receives special courses in the field chosen. Further specialized courses are also given in the fourth year (semesters seven and eight), together with the preparation of two projects. .