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Prepare to help solve tomorrow’s environmental problems.

Students writing notes in the forrest creek bed

Our emphasis is on responsible stewardship, with natural sciences as the foundation courses, and a flexible curriculum that allows both breadth in interest and depth in specific environmental areas.

Programs Offered

Sample Courses

  • Ecology and the Environment
  • Understanding the Earth
  • Geomorphology
  • Soils in the Environment
  • Water and Wastewater Technology
  • Environmental Compliance
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Core Curriculum

Your success is at our Core. TCU’s Core Curriculum prepares you to live and work in today’s ever-evolving diverse and global society. It encourages you to be intellectually curious and ask big questions about the world and your place in it.

Special Admission Requirements

Graduate Admission Requirements

Our Faculty

Our faculty is dedicated to creating unique teaching and research opportunities for students interested in meeting challenges related to the environment. Meet our faculty.

What Sets Us Apart

We direct our research, teaching, and outreach toward solving problems of the environment and strive to provide classroom, research and field-based experiences to enable you to become a strong scientist and ethical leader in our profession.

Environmental science students can enhance their experience by participating in unique study abroad opportunities to South Africa or Costa Rica through the Institute of Environmental Science’s TCU Rhino Initiative or the Costa Rica Research Station.

TCU also offers a minor in sustainability.

Career Prospects

Environmental science graduates work around the world in areas of local, state, and national government; industry; education and consulting. They have pursued graduate study in areas such as environmental engineering, water chemistry, botany, geographic information systems, marine sciences, wildlife management, and natural resources. Our alumni work at companies such as:

  • DFW Airport
  • Botanical Research Institute
  • GMO Free USA

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John V. Roach Honors College

Exceed your own expectations. Incoming and current undergraduate students of every major may apply. Unique classes are offered which connects students with a varied curriculum that is stimulating, supportive and cross-disciplinary.