Program Description

Choose your electives within the Environment, Health, Safety (EHS) and Sustainability degree to prepare yourself for a career in environmental compliance. Professionals in this field work with large companies to help them abide by environmental laws, regulations, standards and other requirements such as site permits to operate. In recent years, environmental concerns have led to a significant increase in the number and scope of compliance imperatives across all global regulatory environments. Environmental concerns and compliance activities are increasingly being aligned with corporate performance goals to increase profits and avoid conflicts, wasteful overlaps and gaps. 

Skills for this Work:

• Interpersonal skills
• Passion for the environment
• Organized mind
• Approach issues from multiple points of view
• Able to interpret rules and regulations in an applicable manner
• Use of science to solve problems

What These Jobs Do: 

• Managing compliance monitoring programs and schedules
• Reviewing and adhering to permits
• Pre-processing, performing calculations and validating the data for compliance with any alert or reporting levels
• Generating routine compliance reports for authorities
• Creation of environmental permits

Admission Requirements

• High school grades (minimum 2.5 cumulative grade point average) and class rank;
• American College Test (ACT) (minimum 20 composite ACT) or Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) (minimum 950 composite SAT) scores;
  • for those students unable to take the ACT or SAT due to COVID-19 closing testing centers, the following criteria will be used:
    • An Academic Letter of Recommendation;
    • A graded writing sample of previous academic work;
    • An interview with University Admissions personnel;

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 $48,176.