Program Overview

Focus on Sustainability:

• Sustainable approaches and solutions relevant to today’s world are embedded into the curriculum.
• The LMU Coastal Research Institute, a partnership with The Bay Foundation, provides students with applied research opportunities to investigate, solve, and implement solutions to today’s most vexing problems along the ocean’s coasts, where two-thirds of the world’s population lives.
• Our Southern California backdrop exposes students to the most advanced, current and sustainable modern solutions to environmental problems.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flexibility & Personalization:

• Evening courses to accommodate working professionals.
• Fully interactive remote learning.
• Small class sizes.
• Significant facetime with faculty.
• Collegial, community-focused atmosphere.
• Program completed at one’s own pace – as fast as a single year.
• Customized study plans tailored towards professional goals.
• Option to perform a research-based master's thesis with a reduced course load.
• Students have the option to switch to Environmental Engineering or Water Resources Engineering by passing the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination and meeting the other program requirements.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Industry Relevance:

• Modern and professionally relevant courses
• Courses taught by faculty distinguished both in academia and in industry
• Classes mixed with working professionals and students performing research towards a master's thesis.
• Council for Industry Partnerships for professional mentorship and job prospects.
• Enhanced career opportunities
• Shortened paths to management and leadership positions
• Increased salaries