Situated within the nation’s top public research university, the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) at the University of Michigan has been a pioneer in environmental education, research, and activism for more than a century. SEAS offers the nation’s most integrated and comprehensive environmental education for graduate students. It’s the only school of its kind to combine natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, policy, planning, and design as one shared educational experience – a multidisciplinary integration critical to all successful efforts of sustainability. Our students go well beyond scientific inquiry, learning to translate research into action, places and landscapes, community outreach, and to promote sustainable systems and policy at all levels. A commitment to public good and the well being of our planet underlies everything we do. SEAS is a hub for interdisciplinary collaboration and research at the University of Michigan. Taking a holistic approach, we foster partnerships, initiatives, and projects that tap into the vanguard expertise of faculty across campus. Whether through alternative future scenario development, systems modeling, design ideation, engineering, ecological forecasting, geographic information systems, or economic analysis, SEAS brings an entrepreneurial, impact-driven mindset to sustainability challenges. As a result, our graduates know how to identify and analyze the underpinnings of environmental problems and are able to formulate holistic solutions that are simultaneously inspirational and technically, economically, and socially feasible.
