Join a field of academic inquiry and exploration that pairs a robust scientific curriculum with a broad liberal arts education, preparing graduates to tackle the challenges of a changing global environment.
Picture yourself hiking deep into an old-growth forest to inspect its rich biodiversity, wading into streams to investigate the effects of human land use on water quality, exploring coal mines to understand the formation and effects of fossil fuels and visiting wastewater treatment plants to grasp the processes that transform 30 million gallons of contaminated water each day.
When you join our group of passionate student scientists, you are immersed in the study of Earth’s eight billion people and the ways they interact with the natural world. You’ll receive an interdisciplinary and rigorous education that enriches and prepares you to pursue whatever dreams you have for yourself.
Environmental science graduates have embraced abundant and diverse opportunities: they’ve attended graduate, medical, or law school, or immediately landed jobs in industry, secondary education, research, advocacy and government. Follow the links in the After Graduation section to see more about outcomes of a Muhlenberg environmental science education.
Muhlenberg College invites the community to an information session and guided tour of The Fahy Commons for Public Engagement and Innovation on the evening of January 10 to learn about sustainable design and building practices.
In her role with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Kunsch develops programs to encourage the adoption of clean transportation and green buildings in the Commonwealth.
Through the National Institutes of Health-funded Minority Health Research Training Program, Dalton is exploring the initiation of substance use among adolescents in the country.
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing rules to mitigate a group of dangerous chemicals that can be found throughout the environment, including in our drinking water.
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