Bachelor of Science in Environmental and Sustainability Studies - Conservation and Land Management

This emphasis explores how management techniques such as mitigation, restoration, and planning are informed by ecological, cultural, and social understandings. Environmental and Sustainability Studies (ENVST) is a STEM interdisciplinary program that offers a major with several emphases to focus your study, as well as a minor. The curriculum explores ecological systems and the impact of human-environment interactions from the perspectives of the natural sciences, the social and health sciences, and the humanities. The U's program strives to foster an understanding the multi-faceted issues of the environment and sustainability and finding solutions through systemic analysis, peer learning, and community engagement, social responsibility, leadership, and having a science-based focus on solutions and integrated problem solving.
This emphasis explores how management techniques such as mitigation, restoration, and planning are informed by ecological, cultural, and social understandings.

Studying ENVST will prepare you for careers in government (such as the Bureau of Land Management or as a Watershed Scientist), business (as an environmental consultant or sustainability director), education, urban planning or farming, nonprofit (as a program manager), and activism (as a lobbyist against environmental degradation). Graduates of the program have found work as policy makers, consultants, botanists, renewability coordinators, and environmental journalists. If you want to go to graduate school, programs can include fields of environmental and other sciences, business administration, public health, urban planning and law.

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Choosing the right program and major for your goals
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Transitioning to US campus life
Exploring your career paths and opportunities to grow professionally
Test dates must fall within two years of submitting your application and paying your application fee to be valid.
Our office cannot use expired test scores to evaluate the English proficiency requirement.
TOEFL - 80 or higher, IELTS - 6.5 or higher