Environmental Science Graduate Schools

• Careers in environmental science are growing in demand.modern city located in an environment of mountains image by Sergey Galushko from Fotolia.com
  
  Getting a graduate degree in environmental science will prepare you for a career of helping individuals and institutions make sound environmental decisions. The job market for environmental scientists and engineers is growing as more attention is devoted to environmental concerns. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that the environmental scientist job market "is expected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations through 2018." The BLS projects the environmental scientist market will increase by 24.2 percent between 2006 and 2016. Top universities in America offer a variety of graduate programs in environmental science.
  
  

State University of New York

• The College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) at the State University of New York (SUNY) offers multidisciplinary master's and Ph.D. programs in environmental science. According to the SUNY-ESF website, its programs "provide interdisciplinary education, research and public service to prepare students to comprehensively address environmental concerns and problems, investigate practical solutions to them, and to foster effective environmental stewardship." Admission requires prerequisite undergraduate courses and academic and/or work experience in your chosen area of study.
  
  Graduate Program in Environmental Science
  SUNY-ESF
  134 Baker Lab
  1 Forestry Drive
  Syracuse, NY 13210--2787
  315-470--6528
  esf.edu
  
  

Purdue University

• Purdue University offers interdisciplinary a master's degree and Ph.D. through its Ecological Sciences and Engineering (ESE) program. The Purdue website reports the ESE program "is designed to create a foundation where students develop the knowledge and tools necessary for sustainable management of natural resources and to reduce the 'ecological footprint' of human society." The ESE program admission requirements are at least a 3.3 grade point average on a 4.0 scale, 1,200 or better on verbal and quantitative scores and 4.0 or better on analytical writing scores on the GRE and completion of math, science and statistics prerequisite courses.
  
  Office of Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs
  The Graduate School
  Purdue University
  Ernest C. Young Hall, Rm. B-85
  155 S. Grant Street
  West Lafayette, IN 47907
  765-494-9256
  purdue.edu
  
  

Columbia University

• The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University offers a master's in climate and society and a Ph.D. in Earth and environmental sciences. Admission to the programs requires an undergraduate degree in biology, chemistry, geoscience, engineering, environmental sciences or policy, mathematics or physics in addition to acceptable GRE scores.
  
  Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  108 Low Memorial Library
  535 West 116th Street, MC 4304
  Columbia University
  New York, NY 10027
  845-365-8550
  columbia.edu