Combine your passion for improving the environment with marketable, career-based skills in our flexible program.
A master’s in environmental studies will provide you with marketable job skills in fields such as environmental health and safety, environmental management and green energy. You can work in environmental law or education, pursue a teaching career or continue further studies in engineering or microbiology.
Our new Graduate Merit Scholarship offers yearly awards ranging from $3,000 to $10,000. These can be renewed every year, so you can save substantially on tuition while earning a career-boosting Adelphi grad degree.
This program offers a number of skills related to environmental science which certainly opens multiple career paths.
We offer two concentrations to prepare you for the ever-changing job market:
Examines the complex biological and cultural interactions of human populations through time with their varied environmental and geographic contexts.
Examines knowledge from the earth sciences, including geologic, hydrologic, climatic and diachronic aspects of Earth.
You can also choose from two optional specializations:
Focused on the necessary tools to understand and influence environmental decision-making related to business and economics in environmental fields.
Explores the diverse fields of toxicology and ecotoxicology, disease ecology and epidemiology.
At Adelphi, we believe strongly in the power of hands-on learning to prepare our graduates for rewarding careers. Our students have the opportunity to enrich their studies with invaluable opportunities to participate in extensive research here on the shores of Long Island or as far away as Australia or Alaska. Recent students have also held internships at organizations such as:
Adelphi’s eighth consecutive winner of an Inspiring Programs in STEM Award provides scholarships, mentoring, internships and career preparation for high-achieving, low-income students from local schools majoring in STEM fields.
These Adelphi students have used their degrees to forge different career paths.
Whether it is getting Adelphi involved in state environmental initiatives, addressing the challenges of food waste on campus, or studying shorebird ecology for the National Park Service, these environmental science students are making remarkable strides for our planet.
Kelly Andreuzzi, a junior, has always been passionate about environmentalism. So, as a first-year student, it was a no-brainer for Andreuzzi to join the Environmental Action Coalition (EAC), a student organization that promotes education, sustainability and environmental equity for all.
Sarah Combs, one of the first students in our new five-year B.A./M.S. in Environmental Studies program, is heading to a remote corner of Minnesota to map the first settlements of the Ojibwe tribe.
Applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies or a related field and should have completed some coursework in science, mathematics and social science. Applicants should submit the following:
