After Graduation with an Environment Science Degree
After Graduation …Environmental Science Students Do Great Things!
The Environmental Science Major at SMSU prepares students for a variety of jobs and careers. Examples of places our students have gone to work and jobs they’ve gotten include:
- Program Manager, Washington County Public Health & Environment
- Environment & Safety Specialist at a power plant in Iowa
- Environmental Health Specialist
- Pollution Control Specialist, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
- US Fish and Wildlife Service in Huron, SD
- Fisheries technician at Wyoming Game and Fish Department
- Minnesota Soil and Water Conservation District in Morris, MN
- Education & Communications Associate, Minnehaha Creek Watershed District
- Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Willmar Office
- Soil Conservation Technician
- Environmental Engineering firm, Wenck Associates, Inc , in Woodbury MN
- Upper Sioux Agency, Park Ranger
- Glacial Lakes National Park, Assistant Park Manager
- Water Quality Specialist at Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Department of Water Resources
- Centrol Crop Consultants
- Covance Pharmaceuticals, Madison WI
- Animal Presenter at Blank Park Zoo, Iowa
Other students have chosen to go on to graduate school. Places and programs our graduates have gone to school are:
- University of Minnesota at Mankato, MS in Wetland Ecology
- Alaska Pacific University, MS in Environmental Education
- St. Mary’s University, MS in GIS
- Portland State University, MS in Environmental Science
- University of Virginia, Environmental Science PhD program
- University of Montana, MS in Geosciences
- University of MN, Duluth, MS in Geology
- University of Hawaii, Manoa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MS program
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