Environmental Sciences Major

Get involved. Find your people.

Explore a few of the environment and sustainability-related student or campus organizations at UW–Madison:

Learn through hands-on research

Join a faculty lab and explore environmental sciences through a different perspective. Step out into the field, develop your research skills, and learn first-hand from faculty, staff, and graduate students.

Study climate change mitigation and adaptation, the sustainability of dairy farms, improve urban soils, and so much more.

Study abroad and gain global perspective

Complement your coursework and strengthen your understanding of environmental issues throughout the world with a study abroad program. Learn about environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity conservation, and land use change in Australia’s ancient rainforests, or experience tropical ecology and international conservation first-hand in Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, Andes Mountains and Amazon Rainforest, and so much more.

You can also choose from one of UW–Madison’s many semester, summer, and short-term study abroad programs and map your study abroad experience as an environmental sciences major.

Focus your interests

Investigate a real-world problem that aligns with your interests by choosing from 8 capstone courses.

Past courses have covered conservation biology, assessment of environmental impact, restoration ecology, plant microbiomes, and soil management.