Sanford offers top-ranked environmental academics and expertise in environmental and energy policy to address policy innovations that affect the very health of our planet at a crucial time when science is being questioned.
Related Programs & Courses
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
The Public Policy Studies major is a perennial top major at Duke University.
PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS
- MPP (Environment and Energy Specialization available) – view concentration requirements
- MPP/Master of Environmental Management (MEM) or Master of Forestry (MF) – dual degree options with Sanford School/Nicholas School
- IMEP (International Master of Environmental Policy)
GRADUATE PROGRAMS
- PhD in Public Policy
- PhD – University Program in Environmental Policy – joint program with Sanford School/Nicholas School
Graduate-level elective courses include:
- Climate Change Economics and Policy
- International Environmental Policy
- Collective Action
- Sustainable Development
- Environment & Development
- Energy & Development
- Global Environmental Health
PARTNERSHIPS
- top-ranked Nicholas School of the Environment
- Duke’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions designing policy responses to the most pressing environmental and energy challenges
- interdisciplinary project teams at the Duke University Energy Initiative
