Master of Environmental Studies (MES)

Our Master of Environmental Studies (MES) is offered by the Waterloo-Laurier Graduate Program in Geography. You can benefit from the breadth and depth of the expertise of our faculty and your fellow graduate students in this rich intellectual environment. Our joint program allows you to explore a range of research interests, from the analysis of pressing social and environmental problems to theoretical questions of philosophical and technical importance.The MES program is ideal if you’re interested in environmental and resource management, or some aspects of human geography or environmental applications of geomatics.CareersMES students who recently completed the program are employed byas: municipal governments (Thunder Bay, Calgary)provincial government departments (Alberta Environment), federal government departments (Fisheries and Oceans)conservation authorities (Halton Hills)market and GIS analysts and technicians in industry (Loblaws, de Beers, BMO Financial, MDA, Central Southern China Electric Power Design Institute, China Railway First Survey and Design Institute, Cogeco, Ecopia Tech, InferUrban)lab technicians, research assistants (University of Waterloo)independent consultants with international organizations (United Nations Development Programme)