Environmental Management (MS)

This program is offered by the College of Science and Health. It is available online and at the St. Louis main campus.

STEM program

Program Description

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the program, students will be able to:

• Apply key terminology, facts, concepts, principles, historical perspectives and theories concerning environmental management and global sustainability toward solving environmental challenges.
• Align sustainability initiatives with organization mission and core values.
• Manage environmental-related risk from an organization’s operation.
• Identify environmental hazards affecting air, water and soil quality.
• Assess environmental-related risk.
• Develop controls to reduce or eliminate risk.
• Employ project management processes and analytical tools to achieve a sustainable outcome to environmental problems.
• Conduct environmental research and communicate risk from an organization’s operations.
• Research scientific, engineering, economic, and congressional information for statutory, regulatory and sustainable approaches to environmental problems.
• Prepare technical papers/briefings to communicate risk/solutions to stakeholders.

Program Curriculum

Required Courses

The 36 credit hours required for the MS in environmental management must include the following courses:

In addition, the student completes 9 credit hours of graduate elective courses offered from other programs. If a student takes BUSN 5760 Applied Business Statistics (3 hours) at Webster as a prerequisite for the program, these credit hours count towards the elective hours.

Admission

See the Admission section of this catalog for general admission requirements. Students interested in applying must submit their application online at www.webster.edu/apply. Transcripts should be sent from your institution electronically to transcripts@webster.edu. If this service is not available, send transcripts to:

Office of Admission
Webster University
470 E. Lockwood Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63119 

Prerequisites

The prerequisites for the program are a bachelor’s degree and BUSN 5760 Applied Business Statistics (or 6 credit hours of undergraduate statistics).

Advancement to Candidacy

Students are admitted to their graduate program upon completion of all admission requirements. Students are advanced to candidacy status after successfully completing 12 credit hours with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. In specialized programs, courses required as prerequisites to the program do not count toward the 12 credit hours required for advancement.