With your Environmental Studies degree, you’ll have a whole array of career paths to choose from in education, park and open space preservation, solar construction, green practices, organic food markets, or in law as environmental attorneys. Other career options include working as energy conservation experts for utilities, heads of recycling programs or businesses, and project managers, environmental specialists and impact assessors for engineering firms working on pollution mitigation or infrastructures projects. Ramapo graduates also work for regulatory agencies, nonprofit corporations, planning departments, consulting firms, and corporations.

Considering graduate school? Ramapo College offers a Master of Arts in Sustainability Studies

Sample Job Titles and National Salary Ranges

* Sources of Information: United States Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics (2020). For more information about careers and assistance in making your career plans, please contact Career Services (cahill@ramapo.edu) or visit www.ramapo.edu/careercenter/.

As an Environmental Studies major, you will actively participate in fieldwork, internships, and study abroad opportunities, such as the American West program, the Venice program, and our semester-long South India program. A cutting-edge, hands-on learning site, the Sharp Sustainability Education Center is a custom-designed and green-built facility designed to demonstrate the components of a sustainable community, and currently includes solar and geothermal energy sources. The major also offers close faculty-student relationships through advisement, independent study, small classes, and interactive student organizations. You’ll have many opportunities for collaboration on projects, conferences, the annual Earth Week/ Month celebration, and the emerging movement to enhance campus sustainability while reducing the carbon footprint and ecological impacts of our collective everyday life at Ramapo.