Environmental Sustainability Certificate

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Environmental Sustainability Certificate

Application materials

Undergraduate online application or Graduate online application

 $50 domestic, $75 international application fee 

 Copy of your degree bearing transcripts – unofficial is sufficient

 English language proficiency – if applicable

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This certificate is designed to introduce students to the various environmental challenges (e.g., water and natural resources, climate change, environmental waste, and pollution) that companies face. Courses in this certificate will teach students how to manage and report on a company’s environmental performance and how to develop sustainable and regenerative business practices to protect, restore, and improve our natural environments and resources. This is a hybrid program, with courses on-campus and online. However, it can be completed 100% online.

Curriculum

To earn the Certificate, you must complete three graduate courses of three credit hours each for a total of 9 credit hours. In addition to the course options below, you may finish the Certificate by completing a significant environmental sustainability internship (e.g., implementing, monitoring, or reporting on environmental sustainability initiatives at a business), independent study (e.g., implementing, monitoring, or reporting on environmental sustainability initiatives at your place of work), or study abroad program.

Take the required SUSB 6826 Environmental Sustainability and Stewardship course, and then choose two additional environmental sustainability-related courses. Past course topics include:

  • Earth environments and human impacts
  • Water quality and resources
  • Climate change: causes, impacts, and solutions
  • Environmental risk assessment
  • Carbon markets
  • ESG trends in energy and commodities
  • Sustainability in resources management
  • Global enterprise sustainability and resilience
  • Environmental justice
  • Environmental planning and management
  • Environmental politics and policy
  • Environmental life cycle assessment
  • Science, policy, and the environment

Flexibility to apply to a future MS degree. The Environmental Sustainability Certificate can be stacked or combined with the Foundations of Sustainable Business Certificate and one additional Certificate from the list below to earn the Master of Science in Sustainable Business if you choose to later apply to the entire MS program.

  • Managing for Sustainability Certificate
  • Risk Management and Resilience Certificate
  • Social Enterprise Certificate
  • Sustainable Energy Certificate

Application Deadlines

Spring

January 1st

Summer

June 1st

Fall

August 1st

How to Apply

Admission to our post-bachelor certificates is open to recent non-business undergraduate graduates and professionals. Candidates must have graduated with a current cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0 (2.5 for Digital Marketing) or higher 

Applicants are required to submit all application materials, including the online application and copy of your degree-bearing transcripts. As an applicant, please complete the Graduate Non-Degree Admissions application and fill out the following on the Academic Interests page:

  1. Select: Certificate
  2. Select: On-Campus
  3. Certificates: Business School Certificates
  4. Subplan: depends on your certificate
  5. Select the term you wish to start taking classes

For any questions, please contact our admissions team at bschool.admissions@ucdenver.edu or 303-315-8200.

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