<p>What is the differnce between Environmental Engineering and. Environmental Studies/ Science, Forestry, and Geology. What are some related careers, job opportunity's, and good colleges? Which one uses the most math?</p>
<p>Some may disagree but this is my rundown:</p>
<p>Environmental Engineering: It’s an engineering degree, so it probably pays the best on average out of these and doesn’t necessarily require graduate school, but the workload is probably the heaviest and some classes may be of questionable relevance. Some of the careers overlap with civil engineering (actually engineering things), some overlap with environmental science (legal assessments).</p>
<p>Geology: Studies the systems of the Earth, mostly subterranean (rock cycles, volcanos, tsunamis, etc.), most employment is either in the mining/raw resources industry or requires graduate education for academic careers, but salaries are usually surveyed as being high once you find employment.</p>
<p>Environmental Science: Usually a mixture of other sciences like biology/geography/geology plus some technical courses on environmental regulations. Graduate education not necessarily required. Employment is good if you learn lots of technical stuff about GIS, laws, assessments, and get certifications.</p>
<p>Forestry: Just like the name sounds, deals primarily with forests and plant-based resources, a lot of people seem to envision themselves just caring for forests/trees but chances are you will either have to work your way up from scratch in a business-related position the logging industry or go to grad school for an academic position. Pretty fierce competition for employment from what I’ve seen since there aren’t exactly logging or forest ranger booms the way there are oil/mining booms.</p>
<p>Environmental Studies: Usually consists of lectures on radical socialism, radical feminism, pot farming, 1960s flashbacks, how great the USSR was, why people with freckles and colorful eyes are universally evil and people with darker features are universally helpless and need to be guided by middle aged acid casualty hipsters who believe themselves to be magical, how when trees leak sap they are “crying”, how to organize green movement protests where you blame pollution on corporations then leave piles of trash on the ground requiring 10 weeks of corporate HAZMAT cleanup contracts because you were actually just there to do drugs with other midwestern hedge fund babies who watched a documentary about “social activism” and thought it would be a good place to meet girls, etc. Career prospects: Ironic socialist hedge fund baby, Environmental Studies Professor at UC Santa Cruz, Wallstreet Occupier, usually all 3.</p>
<p>On a serious note, here at Michigan a little while back the Geology department was renamed Earth & Environmental Sciences so just something to be aware as some places may use the terminology somewhat interchangeably. </p>
<p>On a not serious note, infernos assessment of ‘Environmental Studies’ is hilarious.</p>