Environmental Studies, BA
Careers
Graduates of our program go on to pursue a wide variety of interests, becoming environmentalists, ecologists, historians, publicists, filmmakers, engineers, entrepreneurs, to name a few.
Alumna Saves Seeds, Serves the Community
Maya Jaramillo-Visconte ’24 first saved seeds as part of her environmental studies coursework at USF. Today, she is saving seeds as part of her profession.
What can you do with an Environmental Studies degree?
- City planning: Find sustainable ways to develop urban land and infrastructure. Collaborate with local municipalities on zoning, land use, public health, transportation, and housing.
- Urban design & architecture: Improve how residents navigate their city by leveraging and highlighting a city’s physical qualities.
- Nonprofit work: Become a grant writer, researcher, fundraiser, manager, or counselor for a community service agency, advocacy group, or hospital, retirement, and rehabilitation center (to name a few).
- Law: Specialize in land use law and help developers navigate issues of property rights and local developmental controls.
- Local politics and governance: Serve in mayors’ offices for city council members and city managers, as well as public policy think tanks.
Feeding the World
At the Sheldon Jackson Hatchery at the Sitka Sound Science Center in Sitka, Alaska, Cook and his colleagues raise pink, chum, and coho salmon — more than six million fish per year. If not for hatcheries like his, says Cook, the wild salmon population would be depleted beyond recovery.
Employers
Here is a partial list of companies that our alumni have worked for:
- BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc.
- Blue Energy
- California Academy of Sciences
- City of Seattle
- CLEAResult
- Digital Realty
- East Bay Municipal Utility District
- Foggy River Farms
- Hult International Business School
- Infab Corporation
- Marin School
- Marketo
- Peterson Mechanical, Inc.
- PG&E
- Prince Lobel Tye, LLP
- Restoration Hardware
- Save The Waves Coalition
- Seattle Urban Farm Company
- SkyAngels
- Smart Gardener
- Spatial Informatics Group, LLC
- Sustainable Economic Enterprises of Los Angeles
- Trumpet Behavioral Health
- University of Hawaii
- Wetland Consulting Services