Searching for Schools

Comparing and contrasting diverse schools is an important part of making your decision. To help you jump-start your school search, we've listed some conservation and environmental majors below. For each major, we've selected ten schools* that specialize in that particular field. This list does not contain every major or every school, nor does it necessarily include the "best" in the field; it is only intended as a useful starting point as you begin your research.

Botany (Area: Biological and Life Sciences)

• Brigham Young University http://www.byu.edu
• Cornell University http://www.cornell.edu
• University of California, Berkeley http://www.berkeley.edu
• University of California, Davis http://www.ucdavis.edu
• University of Delaware http://udel.edu
• University of Florida http://www.ufl.edu
• University of Texas, Austin http://www.utexas.edu
• University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu
• University of Washington http://www.washington.edu
• University of Wisconsin, Madison http://www.wisc.edu

 Environmental Engineering (Area: Engineering)

• California Institute of Technology http://www.caltech.edu
• Georgia Institute of Technology http://www.gatech.edu
• Johns Hopkins University http://www.jhu.edu
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology http://web.mit.edu
• Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu
• University of California, Berkeley http://www.berkeley.edu
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign http://www.uiuc.edu
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor http://www.umich.edu
• University of Texas, Austin http://www.utexas.edu
• Virginia Tech http://www.vt.edu

Environmental Law (Area: Law)

• Georgetown University http://www.georgetown.edu
• George Washington University http://www.gwu.edu
• Lewis and Clark College http://www.lclark.edu
• Pace University http://www.pace.edu
• Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu
• Tulane University http://www.tulane.edu
• University of California, Berkeley http://www.berkeley.edu
• University of Colorado, Boulder http://www.colorado.edu
• University of Maryland http://www.maryland.edu
• Vermont Law School http://www.vermontlaw.edu

Environmental Policy (Area: Public Administration)

• Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu
• Duke University http://www.duke.edu/
• Harvard University http://www.harvard.edu
• Indiana University, Bloomington http://www.indiana.edu
• Syracuse University http://www.syracuse.edu
• University of California, Berkeley http://www.berkeley.edu
• University of Maryland http://www.maryland.edu
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor http://www.umich.edu
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill http://www.unc.edu
• University of Washington http://www.washington.edu

Fisheries Science (Area: Biological and Life Sciences)

• Auburn University http://www.auburn.edu
• Clemson University http://www.clemson.edu
• Frostburg State University http://www.frostburg.edu
• Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu
• Mississippi State University http://www.msstate.edu
• New Mexico State University http://www.nmsu.edu
• North Carolina State University http://www.ncsu.edu
• Oregon State University http://oregonstate.edu
• University of Alaska, Fairbanks http://www.uaf.edu
• University of Washington http://www.washington.edu

Forestry (Area: Agricultural Sciences)

• North Carolina State University http://www.ncsu.edu
• Oregon State University http://oregonstate.edu
• Syracuse University http://www.syracuse.edu
• University of California, Berkeley http://www.berkeley.edu
• University of Georgia http://www.uga.edu
• University of Maine, Orono http://www.umaine.edu
• University of Minnesota, Twin Cities http://www.umn.edu/tc
• University of Washington http://www.washington.edu
• Utah State University http://www.usu.edu
• Yale University http://www.yale.edu

Landscape Architecture (Area: Planning and Design)

• Arizona State University http://www.asu.edu
• California State Polytechnic Institute, San Luis Obispo http://www.csupomona.edu
• Florida A&M University http://www.famu.edu
• Iowa State University http://www.iastate.edu
• University of California http://www.ucla.edu
• University of Maryland http://www.maryland.edu
• University of Pennsylvania http://www.upenn.edu
• University of Virginia http://www.virginia.edu
• University of Wisconsin, Madison http://www.wisc.edu
• Virginia Tech http://www.vt.edu

Parks and Recreation Management (Area: Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Studies)

• Clemson University http://www.clemson.edu
• Colorado State University http://www.colostate.edu
• Cornell University http://www.cornell.edu
• Eastern Kentucky University http://www.eku.edu
• Kansas State University http://www.ksu.edu
• Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu
• North Carolina State University http://www.ncsu.edu
• Pennsylvania State University http://www.psu.edu
• University of Florida http://www.ufl.edu
• Washington State University http://www.wsu.edu

Soil Science (Area: Agricultural Sciences)

• Texas A&M University http://www.tamu.edu
• University of Arizona http://www.arizona.edu
• University of California, Davis http://www.ucdavis.edu
• University of Florida http://www.ufl.edu
• University of Georgia http://www.uga.edu
• University of Illinois, Chicago http://www.uic.edu
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln http://www.unl.edu
• University of Wisconsin, Madison http://www.wisc.edu
• Washington State University http://www.wsu.edu
• West Virginia University http://www.wvu.edu

Zoology (Area: Biological and Life Sciences)

• Arizona State University http://www.asu.edu
• Auburn University http://www.auburn.edu
• Colorado State University http://www.colostate.edu
• Harvard University http://www.harvard.edu
• North Carolina State University http://www.ncsu.edu
• North Dakota State University http://www.ndsu.edu
• Pennsylvania State University http://www.psu.edu
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor http://www.umich.edu
• University of Oklahoma http://www.ou.edu
• University of Wyoming http://www.uwyo.edu

* The list of colleges and universities was derived from a combination of sources, including U.S. News & World Report, The Gourman Report, National Doctoral Program Survey, and Guide to Graduate Environmental Programs. Conservation International declines any liability with respect to the accuracy, suitability, completeness or relevance of the information contained in the list.

If you're going to school to study environmental issues, you might consider how environmentally friendly your prospective campus is before you enroll. After all, a university or college has just as great a responsibility to practice what it environmentally preaches as individuals and businesses do.

The National Wildlife Federation produces the State of the Campus Environment, a regular report that surveys and ranks various environmental practices of college campuses across the country.

To read the complete report and find out more about how our nation's schools stacked up in the areas of conservation, recycling, landscaping, transportation, and environmental curriculum, go to http://www.nwf.org/campusEcology/HTML/stateofthecampusenvironment.cfm.