Northeastern’s Department of Earth and Environmental Studies offers a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies, as well as several Dual Major combinations. 

The Environmental Studies program is an interdisciplinary program designed for students who wish to apply an understanding of both social and scientific issues to the solution of environmental problems. The goal of the major is to enable students to conceptualize and to attack "unstructured problems" (problems with many more variables than equations or problems for which there may be no obvious single best solution). This type of problem dominates natural environmental systems; the solutions to environmental problems may require balancing scientific and societal concerns. By the time they graduate, students should be able to identify an environmental problem, develop a plan to address the problem, identify and organize the resources they would need to solve the problem, and know how to put a plan to solve the problem into action. The program is structured to provide a progressive development in skills and knowledge. It is flexible in that it allows latitude in upper-level course choices, selected with the approval of a faculty advisor, to suit individual student interests.

Students are strongly encouraged to complete a dual major combining Environmental Studies and another major.

Students in our B.A. program are well prepared for graduate study, including law school.  Our graduates work in a variety of government, industry, and independent contracting capacities in a number of environmental fields and for employers such as the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Geological Survey and British Petroleum to name just a few.