With an environmental science degree from Adelphi in New York on Long Island, you will gain the tools, training and hands-on experience you’ll need to help create a greener future.
As an interdisciplinary STEM field, you’ll have the knowledge and skills to help take on complex environmental issues. Make a difference as a high school teacher, investigate the causes and impacts of climate change or help manage natural resources such as wildlife habitat. As an environmental scientist, you may investigate solutions to pollution as a hydrologist or environmental chemist. Other opportunities exist as policy developer, marine biologist, or habitat restoration. Increasingly, there are employment opportunities in sustainable development such as solar and wind energy. You could develop skills using geographic information systems or GIS that is currently in high demand.
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.
Adelphi student interning at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Classroom learning is just the beginning of your environmental science education at Adelphi University. From the nearby shores of Nassau County on Long Island to destinations across the globe, providing field experience is a vital part of our curriculum. Experiential opportunities include:
To apply for the environmental science program, submit the appropriate application requirements:
Classroom and Laboratory learning is just the beginning of your environmental science education at Adelphi University. From the nearby shores of Nassau County on Long Island to destinations across the globe, providing field experience is a vital part of our curriculum.
