You’ll get lots of hands-on experience to integrate and apply what you learn — not just theory in a classroom.

• Student projects: annual Eco-Fair, organic farms & greenhouses, wind generator, solar tube, natural beekeeping, biodiesel processor, and more.
• Sustainable Living Center: This new off-the-grid, zero-energy facility is a “living laboratory.” Students will actively monitor performance and energy efficiency and make ongoing improvements. Scheduled to open in Fall 2010, it combines four architectural philosophies: LEED Platinum, Bau Biology, the Living Building Challenge, and Vedic architecture.
• Immersion in one course per month: MUM teaches on the block system — you focus on one subject full-time each month. This lets you go deeper into the material, without juggling 4-5 classes at once.
• Active learning: Small class sizes allow for frequent discussions, group projects, and lots of personal attention and support from professors. Our students ranked MUM in the top 3% of U.S. colleges for active and collaborative learning.

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:

• John Jevons: director, Grow Biointensive mini-farming program
• Scott Pittman: founder, Permaculture Institute
• Elaine Ingham: president and director of research, Soil Foodweb
• John Ikerd: author/speaker on sustainable economics and agriculture
• Diana Leafe-Christian: expert in sustainable community development

We frequently host nationally recognized guest speakers on sustainability, as well.