Congratulations to the EVST Class of 2025!

We are excited to announce that the Environmental Studies (EVST) Class of 2025 was the largest graduating class since the major became a stand-alone program in 2002. Fifty-three EVST majors graduated on May 19th – twenty-three with a Bachelor of Science and thirty with a Bachelor of Arts.

EVST majors came from across the U.S. and the world, hailing from coast to coast and from Puerto Rico, France, New Zealand, Bhutan, Indonesia, Mexico, and Canada. Many graduates paired their EVST degree with another discipline - thirteen students in the Class of 2025 were double majors. Three double-majored with Economics, two with Art, two with Global Affairs, and one each with History of Art, Humanities, Political Science, Statistics & Data Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.

The EVST Class of ’25 also collectively earned twenty-nine certificates, with several students completing multiple - even three! Interdisciplinary certificates included one in Data Science, fourteen in Energy Studies, two from the inaugural cohort of the new Food, Agriculture, and Climate Change certificate program, one in Global Health Studies, and one in Human Rights Studies. Graduates also earned several Advanced Language Certificates: two in Chinese and one each in Japanese, Spanish, French, German, and Italian.

These graduates have exciting and wide-ranging post-graduate plans, spanning the public and private sectors as well as further education. Some will continue their time at Yale by attending the School of the Environment or the Jackson School of Global Affairs, completing the University’s five-year master’s degree programs. Others will be attending Oxford, Cambridge, and pursuing Ph.D. and law school programs elsewhere.

Graduates entering the private sector have secured positions at Deloitte as ESG and Sustainability Analysts, at Procter & Gamble as a Brand Manager, and at General Electric working on wind turbines. Others have joined Morgan Stanley, McKinsey, a boutique renewable energy finance firm, and an AgTech startup. Those entering the public sector will be working at organizations such as NOAA and the Natural Resources Defense Council. A few EVST graduates are continuing in the field of public health, with one joining the Yale School of Public Health and another working at the ALACRITY Center at Johns Hopkins. Additionally, two EVST student-athletes will continue their athletic careers—one in hockey and the other in football.

We are incredibly proud of our Environmental Studies graduates and the many paths they are pursuing post-graduation. Through their academic and extracurricular efforts at Yale, they embodied the interdisciplinary nature of the major. As they move forward, they are prepared to apply their skills across sectors and disciplines. We are excited to see the creative, innovative solutions they will bring to the world’s pressing challenges through the lens of environmental studies.

Congratulations to the EVST Class of 2025, and best wishes on the road ahead!