Top Environmental Sciences & Studies Departments in Europe 2015

Here we’re listing the top 20 Departments for Environmental Science or Environmental Studies in Europe. This is a fast-growing field, so new courses are popping up frequently. While some courses are based within geography departments, other institutions have set up specific departments just for environmental science, recognising its growth as an interdisciplinary field. We’ll look at the top departments worldwide in another post — here we’re focusing on courses within Europe. Although the discipline is more established within the United States than elsewhere, there are also great courses available in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Sweden.

1. Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland
2. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
3. School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
4. Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
5. Sub-department of Environmental Technology, Wageningen University, Netherlands
6. Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland
7. 3TU program, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
8. Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
9. School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
10. School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
11. Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science, Lund University, Sweden
12. School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
13. Environmental Science, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
14. Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden
15. Ecological and environmental sciences, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
16. Department of Energy and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
17. School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
18. Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
19. Earth Sciences, University College London, United Kingdom
20. Faculty of Biology, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Compiled from the QS World University Rankings, Shanghai Rankings, and Complete University Guide Rankings, for environmental science, geography, and life sciences.