<p>Looking for all suggestions for and input on colleges with strong environmental majors. Environmental science over studies would be a plus. Preference for smaller liberal arts colleges.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Reed College</p>
<p>St Lawrence University (NY)</p>
<p>College of the Atlantic, Evergreen</p>
<p>Do you have any idea which part of environmental science you might want to focus in? Geology, atmospheric science, and ecology can all be considered “environmental science”, but the required courses are vastly different. </p>
<p>What can your family afford? What are your stats? Any regional preferences?</p>
<p>Colorado College, University of Puget Sound, Whitman College, Macalaster, and Carleton are among the all around strongest environmental science LACs.</p>
<p>Note that Evergreen, Reed, CoA, and some other schools good in one part of environmental science may be terrible in another sub field.</p>
<p>Colleges very much set in nature: </p>
<p>St. Lawrence, college of the Atlantic, Sewanee (for Biology-focused ES).</p>
<p>I looked at many lac’s for environmental science. The top ones in the northeast are Bowdoin, Middlebury, and Colby.</p>
<p>Some schools with a particular focus within the broad field of environmental science:</p>
<p>SUNY ESF also has an interesting cross registration program with Syracuse. SUNY ESF’s biological environmental sciences are fantastic and it’s a lower cost public (<30,000 OOS). Syracuse offers good geology, and is less than half a mile from SUNY ESF. If you’d consider both a LAC and medium sized university, you should look into that program. </p>
<p>Valpraiso University in rural Indiana offers an incredible atmospheric science program. Its department of meteorology and geography is very well funded and is generally considered one of the best undergraduate programs in meteorology out there.</p>
<p>University of Tulsa in suburban Oklahoma is a research university with only slightly more undergrads than the average LAC. It’s noted for its petrochemical program, which means its pure geology is also quite good. </p>
<p>Colgate is another standout, and is easier to get into than Bowdoin, Middlebury, or Colby. Good geology, and biological environmental science. </p>
<p>Other LACs I’ve heard about for environmental science:
-Gustavus Adolphus College
-Eckerd
-Flagler College
-Willamette
-Berry College (ridiculously huge endowment, largest campus in the US)
-Green Mountain College
-New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
-University of Minnesota - Morris
-University of Denver</p>
<p>Middlebury was the first college or university in the country to offer an environmental studies major (in 1965). It has one of the most highly regarded ES programs in the country.</p>
<p>If you want a school that walks the talk, here is the Sierra Club take
[Cool</a> Schools: Top 100 Schools - September/October 2010 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club](<a href=“http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201009/coolschools/top100.aspx]Cool”>http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201009/coolschools/top100.aspx)</p>