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What Happens When You Graduate?

     From plant identification and measuring water quality to calculating land values and mapping trails, you'll find that what you've learned while earning your CNR degree will definitely apply to the issues and challenges you'll encounter in the workplace.

Science Track
    Those graduating in the Science Track can go on to find jobs in environmental organizations, government agencies, and education and recreation programs.  Graduates with a CNR degree are needed for consulting firms that conduct environmental analyses through field data collection and laboratory analysis.  Government and private property owners also need managers for their lands, parks, and natural resources.  Graduates may also find positions doing environmental monitoring, regulation, landscape and tree care, or environmental restoration.  With a strong scientific and technical background in natural resources, you'll also have a strong basis for continuing to graduate school in a wide range of fields like conservation biology, forest management, environmental law, and ecology.  

Policy Track
   
Graduates of the Policy Track will also be well-equipped for jobs in environmental organizations, government agencies, education and recreation programs.  Natural resource policy specialists are needed by public planning departments, consulting firms, environmental non-profits, and natural resource agencies.  On the job, graduates may work in environmental preservation, public policy analysis and policy-making, natural resource management, city planning, or resource economic analysis.  Your broad background in government, economics, and policy will make you an attractive candidate for graduate school in many fields including natural resource policy, environmental economics, public administration, and environmental law.

   

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