Related programs include coordinated bachelor?s/master?s programs in environmental management and forestry with Duke University, and in landscape architecture with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

All majors complete a field experience and/or internship with an agency or company involved directly with environmental management.

As a capstone, students develop a solution to a real-world sustainability challenge facing a community in the region. They also complete an independent research project, in which they design, implement, interpret and present their findings about a sustainability problem.

All of these experiences give them tools and skills to use professionally and/or in graduate school.