So I’m a junior currently studying for a B.S. in Resource Conservation with a concentration in Environmental Policy & Resources Planning. I’m also earning minors in Media Arts and Business Administration. I would like to go to grad school, however, I’m not sure which grad program would combine these three interests. I’ve looked into land use planning, landscape architecture, environmental engineering, and environmental/agricultural economics. I would like to go into the military after grad school and after that I’d like to work in environmental consulting or for a engineering/architecture firm helping with projects. Any thoughts on a program that combines these three interests?
Instead of looking for a graduate program that combines your interests, I’d advise that you look for a graduate program that fulfills a career need in the area you want to go.
What do you want to do? You say you want to go into environmental consulting or for an architecture firm. What kind of role do you want to play? What graduate degrees do the people who do what you want to do have?
I surfed around on LinkedIn a bit. Most of the people I saw with job titles as “environmental consultant” simply had graduate degrees in some kind of environmental or physical science, like environmental engineering, civil engineering, water resources, environmental chemistry, geophysics/geosciences, etc. A few had degrees in things like natural resource management, and one had an MBA with a focus on sustainability.
The closest thing to what you’d want is probably some kind of natural resources management degree, which will get at the resource conservation/environmental policy part and a bit at the administration part. But a graduate degree is meant to be a specialization in a deliberately narrow field, so trying to combine all of your interests into one is counterproductive to what one tries to achieve when one earns a graduate degree,