Sustainability Studies

A program that focuses on the concept of sustainability from an interdisciplinary perspective. Includes instruction in sustainable development, environmental policies, ethics, ecology, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, economics, natural resources, sociology, and anthropology.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 218 institutions across the United States, with a total of 13448 degrees awarded annually.

Certificates Below Bachelor's

302

certificates awarded

Associate Degrees

degrees awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

1,639

degrees awarded

Post-Baccalaureate Certificates

422

certificates awarded

Master's Degrees

1,914

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

degrees awarded

Other Awards

9,066

awards given

Top Schools for Sustainability Studies

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	1,017
2	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	1,014
3	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	589
4	University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT	447
5	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	366
6	University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, IL	363
7	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	356
8	University of Florida Gainesville, FL	342
9	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ	315
10	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA	267
11	University of Georgia Athens, GA	251
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	249
13	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	228
14	University of South Florida Tampa, FL	222
15	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA	212
16	Florida International University Miami, FL	189
17	University of Iowa Iowa City, IA	186
18	Presidio Graduate School San Francisco, CA	165
19	Oregon State University Corvallis, OR	165
20	Colorado State University-Fort Collins Fort Collins, CO	159
21	University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA	150
22	Allegheny College Meadville, PA	144
23	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	141
24	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus Norman, OK	135
25	CUNY City College New York, NY	135
26	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	132
27	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI	132
28	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	129
29	Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH	126
30	Chatham University Pittsburgh, PA	117
31	Western Washington University Bellingham, WA	114
32	Iowa State University Ames, IA	111
33	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	99
34	Montclair State University Montclair, NJ	90
35	Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	88
36	University of New Hampshire-Main Campus Durham, NH	87
37	Utah State University Logan, UT	87
38	The New School New York, NY	84
39	University of California-Riverside Riverside, CA	84
40	George Mason University Fairfax, VA	81
41	Stanford University Stanford, CA	78
42	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD	75
43	Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA	75
44	Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC	69
45	Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI	69
46	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	66
47	University of Louisville Louisville, KY	66
48	Colorado Mountain College Glenwood Springs, CO	63
49	Bellevue University Bellevue, NE	63
50	Tufts University Medford, MA	63
51	Unity Environmental University New Gloucester, ME	63
52	Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania Slippery Rock, PA	60
53	University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Green Bay, WI	60
54	Montana State University Bozeman, MT	57
55	The University of the South Sewanee, TN	57
56	University of Miami Coral Gables, FL	57
57	Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah, GA	54
58	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide Daytona Beach, FL	51
59	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	51
60	Arizona State University Digital Immersion Scottsdale, AZ	48
61	Coastal Carolina University Conway, SC	48
62	Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science Paul Smiths, NY	45
63	West Virginia University Morgantown, WV	45
64	Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI	45
65	University of Wisconsin-Superior Superior, WI	45
66	University of Wisconsin-Stout Menomonie, WI	45
67	Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY	45
68	Glasgow Caledonian New York College New York, NY	42
69	Furman University Greenville, SC	42
70	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta, GA	42
71	SUNY College at Geneseo Geneseo, NY	42
72	Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ	42
73	Hofstra University Hempstead, NY	39
74	University of Northern Colorado Greeley, CO	39
75	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA	39
76	DePaul University Chicago, IL	39
77	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	39
78	Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ	39
79	Pratt Institute-Main Brooklyn, NY	39
80	Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY	39
81	New York University New York, NY	39
82	University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC	39
83	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati, OH	36
84	Colorado Mesa University Grand Junction, CO	36
85	Texas State University San Marcos, TX	36
86	Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania Shippensburg, PA	36
87	Regis University Denver, CO	33
88	University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus Denver, CO	33
89	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville Knoxville, TN	33
90	University of Wisconsin-Platteville Platteville, WI	33
91	University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Oshkosh, WI	32
92	Pensacola State College Pensacola, FL	32
93	Mesa Community College Mesa, AZ	30
94	SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse, NY	30
95	Keene State College Keene, NH	30
96	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	30
97	University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY	30
98	University of Wisconsin-River Falls River Falls, WI	30
99	Northampton County Area Community College Bethlehem, PA	28
100	Central New Mexico Community College Albuquerque, NM	28