Pre-Professional, Pre-Med, and Pre-Graduate School
Environmental Health graduates have professional opportunities immediately after graduation, or can choose to go on for more education. The Environmental Health major provides the flexibility needed to prepare students for a wide variety of career paths.

For example, premedicine does not require a particular major. Most medical schools require that a premed student complete an undergraduate degree, college mathematics, a year of general chemistry, a year of organic chemistry, a year of biology and a year of physics. You can take these courses in meeting your environmental health requirements. You graduate being able to compete for admission to medical school and also having a marketable discipllinary skill for immediate professional employment.

Also potentially available are other professional school opportunities. Key in maintaining the flexibility to meet a variety of career paths is working with your advisor in selecting your courses.

Some environmental health graduates go on to graduate school. Earning a master's or doctorate in environmental health, or a sub-field such as toxicology or epidemiology, can open fascinating doors and provide additional professional opportunities.

The bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health is unusual in offering graduates the opportunity to work with their B.S. in a large number of different types of jobs (see job listing of recent graduates) or to continue their education. The particular career choice does not need to be made early during a students academic career, although talking with an advisor is critical to make sure that early choices maximize these opportunities.