<p>I go to University of Washington and am in the environmental science and resource management major. It's a bachelor of science and I love it. It integrates policy, forestry, wildlife, remediation, etc. I've also had a lot of opportunities to go on field trips: Spring break studying wildlife in Yellowstone (met the wolf crew and head wolf biologist, observed an elk necropsy after at a wolf kill site, etc) a 5-week course in at Friday Harbor Labs in the San Juans (studying marine mammals and shorebirds), and plenty of day and weekend trips to various areas in Washington state learning forestry methods, soil analysis, plant identification, and analyzing various ecosystems and gradients. They also do a 5-week study abroad in the summer in Costa Rica, which I've heard is amazing. There's a lot of opportunity for internships too. I just started interning at NOAA in the NMML!
The professors are all incredibly dedicated and the class sizes within the major are small. It's a science degree too, so you have to take all the chem/bio/calc/stats classes as well. Way more respectable than an environmental studies degree.</p>
<p>Also, a lot of the classes focus on creating you’re own studies. In Yellowstone, we worked on a project comparing levels of elk vigilance with distance to elk kill sites. In Friday Harbor, I conducted a behavioral study analyzing mom-pup harbor seal behavior changes over tide height as well as based on group size. This kind of thing looks really good on a curriculum vitae.</p>