Undergraduate environmental resource management degrees typically take four years to complete, with one year focused on general education requirements, and the final three years focused on core major courses.
Environmental resource management degrees generally require basic education courses in English composition, communications, humanities, and health and physical sciences (including chemistry and biology). In addition, degree programs typically require major courses in the following areas: agricultural resource management, advanced biology and chemistry sequences, resource economics, ecology, conservation, limnology, and environmental geology.
Environmental resource management degrees prepare students to work as scientists and conservationists for large corporations, government agencies, and consulting firms.
While government jobs can often be found in both urban and rural settings, conservation jobs with heavy field-work components are often found in smaller cities or smaller towns with access to rural areas. Students should consider where they would like to live before pursuing an environmental resource management degree.
Only consider those programs accredited by a board approved by the U.S. Department of Education, as employers devalue degrees from unaccredited schools.