Starting Fall 2026, the Earth, Society and Environmental Sustainability (ESES) Bachelor’s degree will become Environmental Sustainability (ES).
If you've been around our program, this might already sound familiar — students, faculty, and staff have been calling us "Environmental Sustainability" for years. Now the official name catches up.
The change is more than cosmetic. It comes out of a thorough review of our curriculum and learning outcomes, and it reflects a program that's sharper, more coherent, and better aligned with what our students study and do. We've streamlined course requirements, increased opportunities for advanced coursework, and made the path through the major clearer — all without adding credit hours.
What hasn't changed: our commitment to interdisciplinary thinking that bridges natural and social sciences, our two concentrations (Science of the Earth System and Society and the Environment), and our focus on preparing students to tackle real-world sustainability challenges with rigorous analytical tools.
Environmental Sustainability isn't a new direction — it's a clearer label for the work we've been committed to all along.