UC Davis is nationally and internationally recognized for its depth and breadth of expertise in environmental science and has developed institutional infrastructure to reach the management, policy, and practitioner community at both local and global scales. Global environmental challenges are immense and as a result it is increasingly critical to develop sufficient knowledge in environmental policy and management throughout the various sectors in society.
Advantages of a program at UC Davis include:
- UC Davis is consistently ranked at or near the top among U.S. institutions and worldwide in animal, plant, and environmental sciences, as well as in wildlife, fish, and conservation biology
- Proximity to Federal and State agencies, stakeholders, and firms in Sacramento and the Bay area, as sources of environmental expertise, experience, and jobs. This region has one of the highest concentrations of environmental employment in the country, with major State (CalEPA, Resources Agency, etc.) and Federal (EPA region IX, USBR Mid-Pacific Region, etc.) offices, as well as a host of legislative, executive branch, consulting, and capital offices of regional and local governments (e.g., Sacramento offices of Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and Kern County Water Agency, etc.), and numerous interest-group offices.
- Proximity to a diverse range of important environmental problems in California and California’s Central Valley, such as air quality, toxic substances, water resources, water quality, and ecosystem sustainability
- California’s reputation for leadership in environmental policy and management
- UC Davis’s range and depth of on-campus environmental research expertise and the campus’s involvement in state, national, and regional environmental problem-solving
- Virtues of life and work in Northern California
- UC Davis is one of the top two green colleges on the west coast and 11th nation-wide, according to the Princeton review.
- The availability of an accelerated one-year program