Master of Science in Environmental Sciences - Environmental Policy and Public Administration

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The environmental sciences program cultivates students’ perspectives of environmental issues and provides them with refined knowledge of environmental issues at the local, regional and global level. The program will increase the student’s technical competence in addressing and analyzing these issues, their origins, ramifications and resolutions, and is designed to enhance and promote professional education and career opportunities in a wide area of interests. Faculty from several departments in the College of Arts and Sciences provide mentoring, direction and instruction. Practicing professionals also lend their expertise to this program, and close relationships are maintained with industries and environmental agencies so that both students and faculty members can incorporate real-world issues in their studies and research.