At the top-ranked Indiana University O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, you can explore the relationship between science, policy, and management while also developing hands-on experience in environmental studies—and get the skills you need to help create sustainable solutions for pressing environmental challenges.
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The McKinney Climate Fellows are an internship where you go and you basically get placed with different non-profit organizations or government organizations around Indiana. So this summer I was placed with the city of Terre Haute and I was working under the Urban Forester. I got to shadow her as she drove around the city and checked on trees. And just like all the knowledge that she gave me through that, that I really couldn't have gotten anywhere else was fantastic. We would be driving down the road and she would point at a tree and she'd be like ah this is the species and this is the scientific name and this is what's wrong with it. So just having that opportunity to see a glimpse into the life of an Urban Forester was really great. And then just all the professional development opportunities of going into the office working as a city official and kind of seeing what that life is was fantastic, along with the fact that through the program we got the opportunity to like talk to a mentor and have GIS training and get professional skills that were going to help us in our future.Three ways to study the environment
Hands-on learning, career-ready grads
At the IU O’Neill School, you’ll have opportunities to practice what you’re learning in the field, in the lab, and in the real world:
- Conduct field research on the 1,600+ acres of protected land that make up IU’s Research and Teaching Preserve.
- Work side-by-side with world-class researchers and earn a $500 scholarship as a Sustainability Scholar.
- Study abroad through one of our 20+ overseas study programs.
- Get early access to our top-ranked master’s degrees through our Accelerated Master’s Program.
98%of our students landed a job or continued their education after graduation.
Working in Professor Attari’s lab, I’ve been researching the way we tell stories about climate change. How can we inspire a more utopian vision? It’s a game changer.
– Anna Dubois, BSPA’23, Environmental Management major