This morning Enviance, in partnership with GreenBiz Group and Qualtrics, introduced the “Sustainable 16,” the country’s top undergraduate environmental studies programs as determined by an expert panel of judges in the Second Annual Environmental March Madness (#EnviroU) tournament.
The panel of judges — comprised of an education author and expert, as well as representatives from the Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense Fund, Walmart, Forbes, Norfolk Southern and Enviance— chose the “Sustainable 16” schools from a competitive group of institutions that showed commitment to the environment through both their environmental studies programs and on-campus initiatives.
The contenders are, in alphabetical order:
- Arizona State University
- Colorado State University
- Emory University
- George Mason University
- Michigan State University
- Middlebury College
- Montana State University
- Ohio State University School of Environment and Natural Resources
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- University of California Santa Barbara
- University of Florida
- University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- University of the Pacific
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
