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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.
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.
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What can you do with an Environmental Science 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.
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