Graduate Studies at Colorado State University

Colorado State University has a national and international reputation for being "green and gold, (which happen, incidentally, to be the school colors).

Colorado State University is the only institution in the world to earn three Platinum ratings from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. AASHE recently awarded CSU a Platinum rating for a record third time under its Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS), an independent program that measures comprehensive sustainability efforts at 990 universities around the world. CSU earned the best score in the United States at 88.14 points, joining Stanford University; Thompson Rivers University in Canada; University of New Hampshire, and the University of California, Irvine as the only institutions ever to receive Platinum ratings. CSU’s score was 2.58 points higher than its previous score in 2017.

The Graduate Degree Program in Ecology ranks high internationally. The Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology in the Warner College of Natural Resources is famous. The College of Veterinary Medicine is premiere, including diseases of wildlife. Genetics is taught in over thirty courses. There is celebrated research in microbiology. There is a School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SOGES) which features interdisciplinary research. There is advanced research in environmental economics. The Colorado Division of Wildlife has its headquarters and research faciliies adjacent to the university.

The Philosophy Department contimues over forty years offering graduate work in environmental ethics.
For a list of CSU Graduates in Env Ethics & Animal Welfare (1993-2014), click here.

For an opinion from Oxford, see "Oxford turns to CSU for environmental ethics expertise," Jeff Dodge in CSU Source, a university newsletter, Jan, 2017 Click here.