About HSA

Happiness Studies Academy, led by former Harvard professor Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, delivers online multilingual educational programs ranging from a year-long "Certificate in Happiness Studies" to a fully online, fully accredited Master's degree.

HSA is home to a dynamic and supportive global network consisting of thousands of professionals from 90 countries.

The mission of the Happiness Studies Academy is to lead the happiness revolution, by educating leaders who are themselves dedicated to personal, interpersonal, and communal flourishing.To realize our mission, we at HSA take a wholistic, interdisciplinary approach to teaching happiness—first in the way we define happiness, and second in the way we teach it. We define happiness as the experience of wholeperson wellbeing, or in short, the experience of wholebeing.