Why Pursue an Environmental Management Master’s Degree?

If you’re passionate about environmental sustainability and want to better understand how policy impacts the world around us, a master’s degree in environmental management may be right for you.

This is a diverse field, offering many different career paths. Whether you’re looking for a chance to enjoy the outdoors, manage fish and wildlife populations, or find a way to safeguard natural resources, you’ll learn constructive skills you can apply in the real world. 

Through this online master’s program, you’ll discover what’s involved with sustainable environmental planning and environmental leadership. With this knowledge, you can play an important role in addressing complex environmental problems that impact us all. 

This is a chance to deepen your knowledge in focused areas to advance toward your goals. Our concentration courses range from fish and wildlife management to environmental sustainability, giving you flexibility in how and where to apply this advanced training. 

Learn from Environmental Professionals

Our goal is to share practical knowledge directly from environmental leaders. That’s why we hire faculty with diverse experience in industry, nonprofits, and government agencies, which has ranged from watershed management to conservation, planning, and environmental health and safety fields, so they can share what they’ve experienced. Our faculty are keenly interested in passing along experiential knowledge to future generations and helping students prepare for what’s next.

Learning from experienced practitioners means having real insight into complex environmental challenges as well as the latest changes in energy policy, environmental law, and ecosystem management. 

Resolve Complex Environmental Challenges

Addressing climate change is a complicated and highly charged issue. Communication and conflict resolution are key to fruitful environmental planning and management discussions. 

Our faculty prepare students with the leadership skills to help find common ground among stakeholders with divergent positions. Graduates learn how to examine environmental issues from different perspectives, such as considering what is economically sound and culturally appropriate.

Pursue Internship Opportunities

Students seeking internships are encouraged to identify and pursue options for elective academic credit. Graduate students in our online masters in environmental management program can receive one-on-one guidance from faculty, who will help them tailor a course specifically around this experience.

Note: Many internships require in-person activity. Students who are interested in an internship as part of an environmental management degree are responsible for identifying appropriate opportunities and reaching out to an academic advisor for guidance about next steps.

Explore Research Opportunities

To prepare for work in the environmental field, students complete deliverables that are commonly expected in the workforce. As you near completion of the online master’s degree program, you have the flexibility to either construct a professional portfolio that highlights your scholarly work or present and defend original research.

Why Attend American Public University?

High-quality education. American Public University is part of the American Public University System, which is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (hlcommission.org), an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Focused on transferrable skills. Students in our environmental management program learn valuable skills from environmental professionals that they can quickly apply to their day-to-day work. This is a practical program where knowledge can be used in roles across environmental science, sustainability, management, land management, environmental law, and more.

Designed for working adults. You can choose to earn your environmental management degree part time or full time. Our faculty and academic advisors understand that students face multiple demands and work to help them achieve their academic goals while balancing other responsibilities.

Strong community. Online students enjoy in-depth class discussions with environmental professionals from around the country in a substantive way. Plus through our many online student groups, you can join a community of people who share your interests.

Affordability. In addition to affordable tuition, we offer no-cost or low-cost ebooks, no-cost admission applications, and no-cost transfer evaluations. Learn more about transfer credits.