<p>What are some schools that offer a broad range of environmental science programs such as natural resource management, environmental chem, biology, and geology? Also a hippie atmosphere would be a nice. </p>
<p>Reed, Hampshire, College of the Atlantic, Warren Wilson, Colorado College, Evergreen State College, Whitman, New College of Florida . . . since they’re all small liberal arts colleges, they won’t necessarily have a “broad range,” but they all have strong environmental components. Large public universities like UC Santa Cruz, University of Colorado-Boulder, University of Vermont, et al would fit the bill also.</p>
<p>Western Washington University. BINGO!</p>
<p>I think Wisconsin Madison is strong in all those areas and offers a range of programs in enviro and resource mgmt but some may be grad programs, you’d have to read the pages. It is a large college in a great college town and there will certainly be neo hippies in force a long with many other types. Although there is also a beer, brats and football crowd, the town has a funky fun vibe, music and street festivals. Probably a lot of state colleges at different levels can fill this, though hippyish or not may vary.</p>
<p>But what is your budget, your stats level etc, before ppl are throwing out colleges you may have constraints to consider.</p>
<p>edit: wrong thread… whoops</p>
<p>Reed, Hampshire, CoA, Warren Wilson, Evergreen State, and NCF do not offer geology. </p>
<p>The University of Montana is worth considering. Fantastic ES (forestry and resource management are particularly great) and excellent geology. Missoula is a nice college town and it’s hard to beat Montana for the sheer number of environmental activities offered in the state. Plenty of scholarships for OOS students. </p>
<p>Appalachian State is another great option. “Hippy” school with strong ES across the board and a relatively low OOS cost. </p>
<p>Keep in mind that the ES and geology departments at schools are usually noticeably more “hippy” in many respects than the rest of the school. For instance I do not think it was a coincidence that the about 2/5ths of the people who headed my school’s “Green Week” were geology or geography majors (despite making up an absolutely minuscule percent of the overall enrollment at my mega sized U).</p>
<p>Here are some others that come to mind:
University of Puget Sound
Beloit
Allegheny College
Carleton
Macalaster
UCSC
UCSB
CU Boulder
University of Oregon
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
Pitzer
Brown
Tufts
Bowdoin
Bates
Middlebury
Eckerd (limited in its strengths)
University of Georgia
Duke
University of Rochester
SUNY ESF/ Syracuse
Northern Arizona U
Prescott (no geology)</p>
<p>Williams has strong geosciences and biology plus a long established environmental program – environmental science, environmental policy. It’s location in the middle of the Berkshire mountains enhances the experience. </p>
<p>Hippy? Not exactly, though the student body is leans liberal to libertarian and is very save-the-earth oriented.
<a href=“http://ces.williams.edu/academics/programs/environmental-studies/”>http://ces.williams.edu/academics/programs/environmental-studies/</a></p>
<p>My personal favorite is Warren Wilson College. I have a very good friend that attends there and has the exact atmosphere you described, although it is very diverse. Take a look if you haven’t already</p>
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I’ve spent a fair bit of time at App, including teaching field geology there one summer. I don’t get a strong hippie vibe. UNC Asheville is the hippie UNC, but even there the town is noticeably more hippie-ish than the school itself. </p>
<p>I agree with others that Warren Wilson seems like an excellent fit. COA is one of the few that practices as much as it preaches and is arguably the greenest college in the country.</p>
<p>Lewis & Clark and Ithaca are obvious suggestions, and the latter offers cross-registration with Cornell. Oberlin and/or Wesleyan might fit, though neither is really a hippie school. Closer to home in PA for the OP, I’d recommend Juniata. </p>
<p>UC Santa Cruz and Humboldt State immediately came to mind.</p>
<p>I haven’t been on the campus in years, but I remember walking around the University of Oregon thinking I’d never seen so many hippies.</p>
<p>The following list shows the 10 small liberal arts colleges whose alumni earned the highest number of PhDs in earth sciences from 2007-11 according to National Science Foundation data (which you can search on webcaspar.com). The highest-producing universities (by absolute numbers of alumni Geo PhDs) are shown for comparison.</p>
<p>All of the 10 LACs are members of the Keck Geology Consortium (<a href=“http://www.keckgeology.org/”>A Whole New World - Keck Geology Consortium)
All the LACs but Colorado College and Whitman claim to meet 100% of demonstrated financial need. Colorado College on average covers ~99% (but seems to be fairly need-aware in admissions.) Whitman on average covers ~97%. The universities are a mixed bag: the state schools generally don’t offer very good aid to Out-Of-State students (but usually have much lower sticker prices than the LACs); the Ivies all claim to cover 100% of demonstrated need.</p>
<p>Of all these, I’d say schools to check out for the best “neo-hippie” atmosphere might include Brown, UC-Boulder, UC-SB, Colorado College, Oberlin, and Macalester. If you want a “broad range” of ES programs, focus on the universities (italics). </p>
<p>College … Geo PhDs
Carleton College 32
… Brown 29
… UC-Berkeley 27
… .Caltech 23
… Colorado-Boulder 21
… UC-SB 19
Colorado College 18
… Michigan 18
… Colorado Mines, Cornell, Harvard 17
… Florida, Penn State, Texas 16
… Washington 15
… William & Mary 14
… Arizona, Michigan State, Rice, UCLA, Stanford 13
… BYU, Dartmouth, Illinois, Rochester, UC-SC 12
Williams College 11
Colgate University 11
Oberlin College 11
… Virginia Tech, Wisconsin 11
Whitman College 10
Pomona College 10
… Nebraska, SUNY-Buffalo 10
Amherst College 9
Macalester College 9
… Arizona State, BostonU, Minnesota, Oregon, Princeton 9
Franklin and Marshall College 8</p>
<p>Of course, this is not an exhaustive list of good schools. College of the Atlantic for example might be a great fit. Maybe Middlebury, too (Bill McKibben is there). I would think location would be an important consideration for a hippy-ish earth scientist. In that respect, the Colorado schools are fabulous. </p>