Program Description

As an environmental and sustainability studies major at WMU, you'll join students who will tackle the environmental and sustainability challenges of our day. Whatever your career path—natural resources and conservation, business leadership and innovation, policymaking, law, planning, communication or the arts—you'll blend rigorous academics with your own creativity and commitment to make a positive impact. The environmental and sustainability studies major is highly interdisciplinary; and it integrates understanding of the sciences, social sciences and humanities. The goal is to develop a deeper understanding of the environment and how societal structures and human behavior can both lead to and be the source of solutions to environmental issues.

The program requires a double major–students must pair their developing understanding of the environment and environmental issues with knowledge from another discipline. Students in the major have dual majored in more than 35 other programs on campus, in almost every college. In doing so, they have forged new career paths and synergies, and enriched their coursework and future careers with a focus on sustainability.

Admission Requirements

Your transcript is the most important piece of information.  It shows what courses you’ve taken and your grades, which allows us to assess:

• Academic Preparation.  Successful students are prepared students and we want to make sure you’re ready for the rigors of college-level work.  We recommend*:
  -  4 years of English
  -  3-4 years of math (through second year algebra or pre-calculus)
  -  3 years of natural sciences (two or more with a lab component)
  -  2 years of the same foreign language
• Grade Point Average.
• Grade Trend.  How well you’ve done in your most recent courses.

IELTS Requirements

Listening	Reading	Writing	Speaking	Overall
6	6	6	6	6

Remarks:

• Yearly tuition fee is given
• I20(Visa Letter) can be obtained only after submitting a bank statement with a balance of USD $33,688.
• Score reporting required.