<p>I've been looking for colleges with strong environmental studies programs, and I stumbled across these two. I looked at the stats at both but I can't really gauge how strong the environmental studies are at these schools. Can someone help me out here, maybe recommend one of these or similar schools? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>William & Mary is strong in every dept. This is important in case you change your major, which most kids do several times. Also the peer group will be light years better which helps for contacts as well setting your sights high in life.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that at W&M the Environmental Science and Policy major is a secondary major - meaning you have to major in something else as well (i.e. biology, government, chemistry, geology, international relations, etc - all with which there is substantial cross over in material and skills). I think that’s a good thing. They definitely stress interdisciplinary studies. They are also moving ahead very fast with their on campus environmental movement, with the foundation of a new green living dorm, a campus wide committee of faculty, staff, and students with a substantial budget to sponsor environmental research projects (for students or student/faculty projects) and campus improvements, an environmental laboratory on a lake, a separate campus on the York River Estuary for the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (a graduate school of the College), and tons of other interdisciplinary studies - such as an International Relations/Government/Econ/Enviro/Sociology joint venture studying international aid, specifically environmental aid. Summer research assistantships or internships with professors are also easy to come by (yay for being undergraduate focused and having a low student:faculty ratio!).</p>