The program in Environmental and Earth Sciences is designed to provide a graduate student an integrated, multidisciplinary education, nurtured through a carefully tailored degree program requiring a breadth of understanding and mastery of a spectrum of scientific and engineering principles. Among the goals is to provide students who have earned science or engineering undergraduate degrees a common ground for interdisciplinary communication, and understanding of the earth and environment, and competence in a discipline that will allow him or her to evaluate and solve complex geoscience or environmental problems.

The program offers the Master of Science degree in Environmental and Earth Sciences (both thesis and non-thesis options).  The Master of Science program is designed to prepare students to pursue careers in industry, government and teaching, or for further graduate education leading to a doctorate.