Florida Tech stands out as a top choice for environmental science and sustainability, offering an exceptional, interdisciplinary curriculum within a close-knit academic community.

With small class sizes and supportive faculty, students benefit from personalized learning and hands-on experiences from day one. You’ll have the opportunity to get involved in research labs early on, gaining practical skills while exploring your interests.

Guided by experts who are invested in your success, you’ll develop a strong foundation and specialized understanding in key areas of environmental science and sustainability.

As an environmental science and sustainability student, you can look forward to plenty of hands-on experience in your classes. Problem solving for local, regional and global environmental issues, such as offshore oil spills, sea-level rise and natural resource management, lets you apply what you've learned.

You’ll also have opportunity to build experience by volunteering in faculty research labs, working on tasks such as measuring water or soil quality, reviewing permit applications to determine the environmental impacts of new development projects or studying the impacts of a contaminant on the environment.

Florida Tech’s environmental science faculty are leaders in their fields, researching critical challenges in water, air and soil systems. With small class sizes and hands-on research opportunities, you’ll work closely with them from the start.

The program’s interdisciplinary structure fosters collaboration across departments, connecting you with environmental scientists, biologists, oceanographers, ocean engineers and meteorologists.

These dedicated faculty are not only experts in their disciplines but also mentors who are invested in your success, creating a supportive and engaging learning environment.

Florida Tech has extensive laboratories and research facilities for applied research in environmental science and sustainability, such as the F.W. Olin Physical Sciences Center, a 70,000-square-foot facility that houses faculty laboratories and cutting-edge instrumentation.

High-tech marine and environmental systems laboratories provide instrumentation that can be used for core-boring and sediment analysis, beach surveying, the measurement and analysis of water quality, the processes of fouling by marine organisms and saltwater corrosion and more.

You’ll also have access to the L3Harris Student Design Center, a one-of-a-kind, 12,000-square-foot building featuring remarkable equipment and resources. It’s a focus of activity for student research and design projects—and it's available for personal projects, as well.

Florida Tech is the perfect place for an environmental science and sustainability degree. Our beautiful 130-acre campus is located minutes from the Indian River Lagoon, a highly biodiverse estuary, and the Ralph S. Evinrude Marine Operations Center ensures students and faculty have direct access.

We’re just over the causeway from the Atlantic Ocean, with its 72 miles of beautiful beaches, and it's a short trip to the Florida Keys or the Everglades National Park, a World Heritage Site and the largest designated subtropical wilderness reserve in North America.  

The Indian River Lagoon, Atlantic Ocean, protected lands and local waterways, water treatment facilities and air pollution monitoring sites offer abundant opportunities for the fieldwork that is a key part of the Florida Tech experience.

Located in the heart of Florida’s Space Coast with NASA-Kennedy Space Center just to our north, Florida Tech is surrounded by one of the nation’s largest high-tech workforces. This dynamic environment provides abundant internship and career opportunities.

At the same time, Florida’s diverse ecosystems and 1,350 miles of coastline create unique opportunities in environmental science and sustainability. Students gain real-world experience through internships with local, state and national agencies, environmental consulting firms and private research organizations, preparing them for impactful careers.

Students have completed internships at organizations such as:

• National Audubon Society
• Marine Resources Council
• Save the Manatee Club
• Center for Coastal Studies
• Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University

Environmental science internships are real-world work opportunities, often provided by Florida Tech alumni.

Beyond the classroom, campus activities, organizations and clubs are a great way to network, develop leadership skills and build lasting professional relationships.

We have a rich campus life that includes a wide range of intramural and collegiate sports and over 200 clubs and organizations—there is something for everyone!

Organizations that may be of special interest to environmental science and sustainability students include:

• Student Organization for Sustainability Action (SOSA)
• Keuper Environmental Association
• Marine Biological Society
• Sustainability Outdoors Adventure Recreation Survival (SOARS)