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Environment & Sustainability at W&M

The Environment & Sustainability Program (ENSP) helps you become an innovative change maker who carries a vision of how to resolve our contemporary environmental problems through science, policy and imagination. This program reaches across the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. It is one of the most integrative environmental programs in the nation. Since ENSP is a secondary major, the ENSP degree offered (B.A. or B.S.) is determined by the primary major chosen before or at the same time as you declare ENSP. You will also focus your studies through one of three tracks: environmental science, environmental policy or environmental humanities.

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Rankings

  • # 3
    Best Colleges for Environmental Science in Virginia
    Niche 2025
  • Top 30
    Best Colleges for Public Policy in America
    Niche 2025
  • # 14
    Best Science Lab Facilities
    The Princeton Review 2025

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Mellon Environmental Postdoctoral Program

The Mellon Environmental Post-Doctoral Scholars (MEPS) program supports the annual hire of one post-doctoral-scholar (for a 2-year term) to support teaching, research, and advising in the Environmental Science & Policy (ENSP) program.

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Outcomes

William & Mary has been successful in placing graduates in high-ranking environmental graduate schools and setting them up with strong career trajectories in environmental fields. Graduating students have also moved directly into positions with the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Geological Survey, National Park Service, Global Council for Science and the Environment, AmeriCorps and various environmental non-profits and consultancy companies including the Cadmus Group, Deloitte and FTI Consulting.

Hear from a Student

"The opportunity to experience lab work and execute my own project feels just as necessary as my coursework and satisfies my need for hands-on activities during my college career." — Breegan O'Hearn '25, a biology and environment & sustainability double major from San Diego, California. O'Hearn is investigating plastic toxicity.

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Your contribution to the Environment & Sustainability Program will make a difference in the education of tomorrow's leaders, in sustaining and expanding our program of teaching and research, and in the protection of our campus and community environments.

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Keck Lab 200 Wake Drive Williamsburg, VA 23185

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Environment & Sustainability Program William & Mary P.O. Box 8795 Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795

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*Courses listed are examples. Course availability changes each semester.