Suggestions for Green Degrees?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm thinking of jumping on the green bandwagon to take advantage of the green job market. Does anyone have any suggestions for good majors to pursue to do this? I thought it might be good to start a list.</p>

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<p>Environmental Science?</p>

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<p>Mechanical, chemical, and biological engineering.</p>

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<p>Marketing or studies in perception management.</p>

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Mechanical, chemical, and biological engineering.

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I second this.</p>

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<p>Petroleum Engineering.</p>

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As our world becomes seemingly ever smaller due to increasing population size and declining natural resources, environmental engineering has emerged as a field of critical importance to society.

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<p>Johns</a> Hopkins University - Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering</p>

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DoGEE, has always been concerned with identifying, understanding, describing and solving environmental problems.

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<p>First thing that popped up when I typed "Environmental Engineering" in google. A very popular major at Johns Hopkins. One of the most rapidly rising majors that people declare. </p>

<p>It consistently ranks among the top ten programs in the nation. Interesting huh.</p>

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<p>America's Best Colleges 2007

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U.S. NEWS 2007 Best Undergraduate Environmental Engineering Programs among schools whose highest degree is a PhD:</p>

<p>1 Stanford University (CA)
2 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
3 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor<br>
....Johns Hopkins University (MD)
5 U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign<br>
6 University of Texas–Austin<br>
....University of California–Berkeley<br>
8 California Institute of Technology
9 Cornell University (NY)
10 University of Florida<br>
11 Virginia Tech<br>
....Northwestern University (IL)
13 Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
....Duke University (NC)
15 Rice University (TX)
....Pennsylvania State U.–University Park<br>
....Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison<br>
18 Univ. of California–Los Angeles<br>
....Yale University (CT)

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<p>First choice would be environmental engineering; next would be civil (concentration in environmental), chemical and biological.</p>