<p>Windstarr-- I am in the environmental business & have been recruiting from some of the mentioned LAC environmental studies programs. First, don’t trouble yourself too much on the BA vs BS. Some schools still give you a BA even if its in a science…employees just want to know that you’ve had the requisite science curriculum. Second, many environmental studies programs have 2 tracks…a policy/social sciences track and a sciences track, the latter where one can concentrate in biology, chemistry or geology, for instance. So don’t throw the environmental “studies” programs out if there exists a science track to your liking that imparts the same science rigor as a “regular” science major. Middlebury’s program is like this…and as Arcadia mentioned, its a great program.</p>
<p>Here are the LACs with environmental programs (science or studies with a science option) that I have researched and like:
Williams
Middlebury
Dickinson
Pomona
Colgate
Bowdoin
Bucknell</p>
<p>this is by no means a complete list, but I can attest as an employer that the above schools offer solid programs for the science side of environmental studies, regardless of whether one receives a BA or BS.</p>