Your passion meets a community of collaborators
Graduate students in the Faculty of Environment are earning a degree from Canada’s leading environmental and sustainability centres. Our students are motivated to tackle some of the world’s most challenging issues and are supported by exceptional faculty, staff and community. Our impactful research helps create meaningful, long-lasting solutions.
Your Waterloo Advantage
Together for a sustainable future
Graduate students in the Faculty of Environment are earning a degree from Canada’s leading environmental and sustainability centres. Our students are motivated to tackle some of the world’s most challenging issues and are supported by exceptional faculty, staff and community. Our impactful research helps create meaningful, long-lasting solutions.
Career-ready and in-demand
The graduate programs in Environment equip our students with the necessary knowledge, leadership and technical skills to provide meaningful contributions in the private and public sectors. Our program topics are relevant, timely and in-demand. Diverse program delivery options meet the needs of different graduate students, including working professionals.
Interdisciplinary Research
Solving complex issues involves working both within and beyond disciplines. Our Graduate students build interdisciplinary partnerships and grow through our collaboration opportunities. Research clusters allow intra-faculty learning from students and faculty members in other programs.
Ethos of Caring
Graduate students in Environment respond to challenges with a sense of caring for one another and for the planet that we share with other people and species. Environment fosters a culture of respect, thoughtfulness, and well-being. A robust support system allows our students to thrive during their time at Waterloo.
Competitive funding opportunities
The University of Waterloo has over 100 awards and funding opportunities for students in the Faculty of Environment. Some awards require an application, while others are awarded through Faculty/Department selection.
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Your graduate student experience
Student experience is more than academics. We want our students to equally contribute to and gain from all that we have to offer at Waterloo. Our campus is a part of a growing entrepreneurial ecosystem and teach hub here in Waterloo and the opportunities to engage and impact are ever-evolving.
Questions?
Contact Christina Pope, Graduate Studies Marketing and Recruitment Specialist.
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Admissions Information
The Faculty of Environment works with the Academic Unit (Department, School, or program) and Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs (GSPA) to review all graduate applications. We are committed to a fair and thorough review process with the goal of providing students with an admission decision in a timely manner.
Completed applications will normally be reviewed approximately 8-10 weeks from the application deadline.
If, upon review of your application, we discover that information is missing, unclear, or incomplete, the Graduate Co-ordinator within the academic unit will contact you.
If you have applied to a research program, a faculty member must be willing to act as your supervisor in order for you to receive an offer of admission. In the event that your requested supervisor(s) is unable to support you, your application may be made available to other faculty members within the academic unit to which you have applied. Faculty members can then access and review your application documentation and contact you if needed.
Once an admission decision has been made, applicants will receive an email and an admission decision will appear in Quest. Admitted students can then view and print our electronic offer of admission letter.
Please visit the GSPA's future student's site for application deadlines and learn more about the admissions review process.