Sustainability Degree Programs
Cornell University offers a vast array of sustainability-related degree programs for both undergraduate and graduate students. We strive to provide impactful teaching that encourages students to work toward a more sustainable future. Students gain both an understanding of the sustainability challenges that exist within their field of study, as well as the tools necessary for developing and implementing innovative solutions that tackle sustainability from environmental, social, and economic aspects.
Undergraduate students are able to choose from several majors focused on or directly related to sustainability. By choosing to major in one of the following majors, students will develop both an understanding of sustainability challenges, as well as an education that equips them to be able to implement positive change within their specific discipline and area of study.
Majors
Biological and Environmental Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Design + Environmental Analysis
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Environment and Sustainability
Global and Public Health Sciences
Minors
In addition to the minors offered within the programs listed above, students can choose to pursue a minor in a field related to sustainability.
Food and Agricultural Business
International Trade and Development
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
Graduate students can pursue various degree programs that incorporate sustainability within the specific field of study.
Majors
Animal Science (M.S., M.S./Ph.D., Ph.D.)
Advanced Architectural Design (Post-Professional) (M.S.)
Architecture (M.Arch, M.S.)
Atmospheric Science (M.S., M.S./Ph.D., Ph.D.)
Biological and Environmental Engineering (M.Eng., M.P.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
Civil and Environmental Engineering (M.Eng., M.S., M.S./Ph.D., Ph.D.)
Comparative Biomedical Sciences (M.P.S.)
Design (M.A.)
Human-Environment Relations (M.S.)
Human Behavior and Design (PhD)
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (M.S./Ph.D.)
Entomology (M.S., M.S./Ph.D., Ph.D.)
Food Science and Technology (M.S./Ph.D.)
Geological Sciences (M.Eng., M.S., Ph.D.)
Global Development (M.P.S.)
Horticulture (M.S./Ph.D.)
Integrative Plant Science (M.P.S.)
Landscape Architecture (M.L.A., M.P.S., M.R.P./M.L.A. (dual degree))
Natural Resources and the Environment
Plant Biology (M.P.S./Ph.D.)
Plant Breeding (M.S., M.S./Ph.D., Ph.D.)
Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology (M.S./Ph.D.)
Public Health and Planetary Health (M.P.H.)
Soil and Crop Sciences (M.S., M.S./Ph.D., Ph.D.)
Minors
In addition to the minors offered within the degree programs included above, graduate students can also choose to minor in the following: