Master of Environmental Studies Degree

Apply Now for Fall 2013! We're accepting students on a rolling basis until our program fills. You can also Visit Us or Request a Brochure.

Scholarships available and waived application fee for AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps alumni!

Why Evergreen?

Highly participatory and interdisciplinary curriculum

• Explore the intersection of environmental science, politics and economics in the Pacific Northwest through the required core sequence.
• Develop specialized skills in ecology, energy/climate change, and sustainable communities with electives.
• Research an environmental issue of your choice while completing your thesis.
• Receive narrative evaluations that assess your performance instead of grades; classes at Evergreen are credit/no credit.

Team-taught evening classes

• Earn your degree at night while continuing to work.
• Choose to attend full-time (2 years) or part-time (3 years).
• Courses are taught by natural and social science faculty.

A promising career

• Gain work experience through optional paid or unpaid internships.
• Alumni are employed in the public, private, and non-profit sectors, or working on a Ph.D.
• Green jobs are on the rise, and all economic sectors seek environmental professionals.
• Learn the interdisciplinary skills needed for today's professional environmental work.

A leader in the field

• We've educated more than 600 environmental leaders since 1984.

Affordable

• Compare our costs to other institutions and see that we're below the national average.

What’s New

• Alumna Hannah Anderson, '06, featured in NW News Network for her work with the streaked horn lark. (5/16/13)
• Congratulations to MES students Otis Bush and Andrea Martin for being awarded Student Foundation Activity Grants for their thesis research.  Watch Andrea speak at the 2013 TEDxTheEvergreenStateCollege (5/8/13)
• 23rd Annual Rachel Carson Forum coming on May 10! (5/6/13)
• Graduation 2013 schedule now online! (5/3/13)
• Winter 2013 Newsletter now online! (3/11/13)
• Thesis presentation schedule now available for Tuesday, March 5 (2/27/13)
• Congratulations to second year MES student, Brittany Gallagher, for being awarded a Student Foundation Activity Grant for her thesis research (1/28/13)
• Director Martha Henderson featured in National Council for Science and the Environment conference video (1/17/13)
• Evergreen to host second annual TEDxTheEvergreenStateCollege on February 25 (1/11/13)
• Congratulations to MES faculty Erin Ellis for being awarded an Evergreen faculty foundation grant for carbon cycling dynamics of temperate rainforests! (1/7/13)
• MES students Jennie Husby and Justin Rogers are featured in One-Minute Evergreen for their thesis presentations (12/18/12)
• Fall 2012 Newsletter (PDF) now available! (11/29/12)
• MES faculty Carri LeRoy and student Andrea Martin featured in the New York Times and USA Today for work with the Sustainability in Prisons Project. (9/28/12)
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Opportunities and Events for MES Students and Alumni

• Job– Non-permanent Fish Hatchery Specialist 1 (Deming, WA) Posted: May 21, 2013
• Job– Communications Associate, Washington Trails Association (Seattle, WA) Posted: May 21, 2013
• Job- Youth Program Specialist: Steps into Wilderness, Washington Trails Association (Seattle, WA) Posted: May 21, 2013
• Job– Corporate & Foundation Relations Manager, Forterra (Seattle, WA) Posted: May 21, 2013
• Job– Living Building Challenge Research Director, International Living Future Institute (Seattle, WA) Posted: May 21, 2013
• Job– Outreach Associate, 3Degrees (Bend, OR) Posted: May 21, 2013
• Job– Manager, Urban Land Institute (Portland, OR) Posted: May 21, 2013
• Job– two summer employees to assist in vegetation surveys, and sample preparation on post-fire research plots in southern Oregon Posted: May 20, 2013
• Job– Forest Ecology Field Technicians, Oregon State University, Post-fire re-measurement in Mountain Pine Beetle affected fuels Posted: May 20, 2013
• Job– Field Research Technicians, Betts Forest Landscape Ecology Lab: Intensive Forest Management and Biodiversity Research Project (Oregon) Posted: May 20, 2013