The program emphasizes core ecological principles, ecosystem dynamics, biodiversity conservation, and the management challenges posed by climate change, land-use pressures, and human impacts on natural resources. Through applied coursework and analytical skill development, students learn to evaluate ecological data, assess environmental conditions, and design effective management strategies that support sustainable ecosystems.

Admission Requirement

The Environmental Conservation Graduate Certificate is open to all persons holding a B.S degree or are currently accepted into a graduate degree program at Missouri S&T. Once admitted to the program, the student must take the four designated courses (provided in the curriculum section). To receive a Graduate Certificate, the student must have an average cumulative grade point of 3.0 or better in the certificate courses. Once admitted to the program, a student will be given six years to complete the program. Students admitted to the Environmental Conservation Graduate Certificate Program will have nondegree graduate status; however, they will earn graduate credit for the course they complete. Students who do not have all of the prerequisite courses necessary to begin the courses in the Environmental Conservation Graduate Certificate Program will be allowed to take ''bridge" courses at either the graduate or undergraduate level to prepare for the formal certificate courses. 

Curriculum

Requirement Modality 

• ENV SCI 6560 - Environmental Ecology & Management 

Choose 3 courses from the following, at least 1 course of which must be from the GEO/GEO ENG and 1 course of which must be from the BIO SCI coursework: 

• BIO SCI 5423 - Advanced Biodiversity 
• BIO SCI 5443 - Population and Conservation Genetics 
• BIO SCI 5453 - Forest Insect Diversity and Ecology 
• BIO SCI 5523 - Ichthyology 
• BIO SCI 6313 - Advanced Environmental Microbiology 
• BIO SCI 6363 - Advanced Freshwater Ecology 
• BIO SCI 6463 - Bioremediation 
• BIO SCI 6563 - Advanced Global Ecology  
• CHEM 5710 - Environmental Monitoring  
• ENV ENG 5635 - Phytoremediation and Natural Treatment Systems  
• ENV ENG 5640 - Environmental Law  
• ENV ENG 5642 - Sustainability, Population, Energy, Water & Materials  
• ENV SCI 6667 - Disaster Management in Changing Climates  
• ENV SCI 5579 - Environmental Safety  
• GEO 5111 - Advanced Physical Geology  
• GEO 4321 - Drone Mapping and Photogrammery  
• GEO 5679 - Field and Laboratory Studies in Earth Science  
• GEO 5741 - Micropaleontology  
• GEO 6421 - Environmental Geology  
• GEO 6541 - Geology of Natural Resources  
• GEO 6611 - Advanced Palynology  
• GEO 6711 - Advanced Paleoclimatology and Paleoecology  
• GEO ENG 5144 - Remote Sensing Technology  
• GEO ENG 5276 - Environmental Aspects of Mining  
• GEO ENG 5331 - Subsurface Hydrology  
• GEO ENG 5332 - Fundamentals of Groundwater Hydrology 
• GEO ENG 6146 - Advanced Remote Sensing and Image Processing  
• STAT 5260 - Statistical Data Analysis Using SAS  
• STAT 5290 - Computation Bayesian Methods using Python  
• STAT 5346 - Regression Analysis  
• STAT 5353 - Statistical Data Analysis