Sustainable Living (B.S.)
Life in Harmony with Nature
What you’ll learn
Gain knowledge and skills to design, build, and maintain sustainable communities. Learn how to implement sustainable practices and become a change agent/environmental problem-solver.
You’ll get lots of hands-on experience to integrate and apply what you learn — not just theory in a classroom.
The field is changing very quickly — many graduates get jobs that didn’t even exist when they started the program. Here are some cool sustainability jobs our graduates have gotten recently:
- City Repair Project, assistant director (Portland, Oregon)
- Peace Corps, regional director of sustainability education (Paraguay)
- Above Green, Vice President at this LEED certifying agency
- Sustainability consultant for an intentional community
- Teaching / implementing sustainability (Peru & Nepal)
- Working on sustainable bamboo farm (Belize)
- Assisting start-up of an American Indian environmental university
MUM graduates have a strong overall placement rate.
In addition to our full-time professors, we regularly bring in nationally renowned experts to teach courses, such as:
We frequently host nationally recognized guest speakers on sustainability, as well.
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