From local controversies of waste treatment to international negotiations on global warming, the environment has become one of the most important current and future issues.

To face the challenges of environmental problems, students need more than the specialized knowledge of a single discipline.

Building on the unusual strength and breadth of Rensselaer’s synthesis of engineering, science, and the humanities and social sciences, the Environmental Studies Program offers students a unique educational opportunity to develop a truly multidisciplinary approach to environmental studies.

Students entering the program take a broad range of basic courses in their first two years and then choose one of five majors: economics (with an ecological economics focus); environmental engineering; environmental science (with a concentration in a specific area of science); hydrogeology; or science, technology, and society (with an environmental focus).

Graduates of the Environmental Studies Program will not be narrow specialists; they will receive the kind of multidisciplinary education that is required to address complex environmental problems.

Learn more about Environmental Studies at Rensselaer.