Study the Environment
Improve the environment.
We want you to find your perfect environmental program so you can do just that. At U of G, it’s a real choose-your-own environmental adventure. Want to work in a lab? Forest? Design studio? The tundra? A boardroom? In politics? No matter your interests, the University of Guelph has an environmental program to match them.
Why study the environment at U of G?
Thinking about the environment is just part of the culture on campus. 94 percent of the University’s departments engage in sustainability research, and our award-winning campus food is sourced locally, including from our own organic farm.
Our suite of environmental programs encourages a unique approach to solving complex issues. No matter the program you pick, you’ll learn about the environment from a 360° view. The environment and the issues it faces are not one-dimensional and your studies will reflect that. Explore how people, places, things and animals interconnect, compete and co-exist.
Choosing Co-op
Improve your job search skills, work performance and networking abilities, and explore careers while making money. The co-op option for bachelor's degrees is a 5-year program with a minimum of four semesters of full-time work. Co-op in an associate diploma includes 1 semester of full-time work in the summer.
- 9 programs
- focused on the environment
- Co-op
- available for most programs
- 330 acre
- Arboretum on-campus
- 40+ profs
- focused on the environment
U of G's On-Campus Arboretum
Did you know that U of G has a 330-acre Arboretum - a "living laboratory" with 40+ plant collections that's popular for trail walks, classes and research, or just being in nature.
Choose Your Program:
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Students interested in studying the environment can also check out Marine and Freshwater Biology, Wildlife Biology and Conservation, Environmental Governance, Geography, Environmental Geomatics, and One Health.
Graduate programs focused on the environment at the University of Guelph include Environmental Science (MES, MSc, PhD) | Geography (MA, MSc, PhD) | Landscape Architecture (MLA) | Conservation Leadership (MCL) | One Health
Experiential Learning
Explore and apply your ideas in new ways and places through studying abroad, taking field courses, working with community partners in your courses, or joining environmental clubs.
What Students Have to Say
When I visited Guelph, I just felt like it was the right place to be. I enjoyed all the schools that I visited but Guelph really stuck out to me. The Bachelor of Bio Resource Management program was unique in the sense that it's sort of a hybrid program between environmental sciences and business management.
What I love about the BLA program is that it combines all the things that I am most passionate about. I enjoy studying the built environment that we live in and learning about how a well-designed environment has an impact on the people that live there.
Finding out that the environmental management program at U of G enables me to improve corporate sustainability made me feel like I had found my career niche.
The classes designed specifically for my program are so fun. They are very focused on land-based learning. We spend the whole period walking around the Arboretum learning how to ID plants and looking at trees and making observations of bugs and organisms. We learn about habitats, and how Indigenous people view the land.
I really enjoy collaborating in the studio. There are so many components that go into each project; working as a team and sharing knowledge makes everyone’s project better.
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