Environmental Health offers tremendous opportunity for people interested in having a meaningful and important professional career. Our academic program at BGSU is one of only 24 nationally recognized as meeting rigorous professional standards by the National Environmental Health Science and Protection Accreditation Council.

Learn about our course requirements and student learning outcomes. Our courses prepare graduates to function as environmental health generalists – able to work effectively in a number of different areas. A catalog listings of our courses is available. Our Check Sheet lists all of our program requirements. [PDF file will be linked]

Our faculty are deeply committed to undergraduate education. Well known in the environmental health community, they are able to share with students from their practical experience working with industry and government.

Our students maintain the Environmental Health Student Group. In addition to looking at professional development (for example we bring in alumni to discuss their experiences and make trips to places of particular professional interest) we get together to help “green” the campus and to have fun! One big activity we hold every year is the “Earth Day 5 K,” a run that brings environmental awareness to a broad community.

Jobs and internships are almost always a key part of deciding on an academic major. Our internship program has our students working in interesting jobs as close by as the local health department and as far away as Alaska for the Indian Health Service. A shortage of well-prepared environmental health professionals poses a problem for both industry and government – and a great situation for our graduates! The linked list shows some of the interesting places that hire our graduates.

Environmental health graduates have unusual opportunities to go on for additional education. Because of the richness of the curriculum, graduates can be prepared for medical or other professional schools, or graduate schools.