For students seeking professional certification in two related fields, the school encourages the consideration of our joint Master’s Degree programs.
For any joint degree program, students must meet normal admission criteria and curriculum requirements in both schools.  In general, residency requirements in the joint degree programs represent a reduction in the residency requirements entailed by selecting both programs independently.
To be accepted as a joint degree student, candidates must apply and be admitted independently to each school.  Once admitted to both schools students are automatically eligible for joint degree status.  The purpose of the joint degree program is to integrate the two so that each informs the other.  We do not want students to take them "back-to-back" but rather to spend a year (or two, depending upon the degree program) at one school, one year at the other and then integrate the final year. 

FES offers joint degree programs with:

Yale School of Management (MBA)
Our most popular joint master’s degree, this program addresses the increasingly interconnected realms of management and the environment. For a full description of the business and environment joint degree program, visit the website of the Center for Business and Environment at Yale (CBEY).

• CBEY – Director, Bryan Garcia
• SOM - Dean of Student Affairs, Patricia Pierce
• F&ES - Professor Daniel Esty

Law (JD)
This master’s degree is designed for students interested in the legal impact on environmental policy and analysis. FES offers joint degree programs with three schools of  law:

• Yale Law School
• Pace Law School
• Vermont School of Law

The FES faculty contact for all three joint Law degree programs is Professor Daniel Esty.

Master of Public Health  (MPH)
The joint degree with Yale’s School of Public Health (MPH) program is designed for highly motivated students with a substantial interest in the effect the environment on public health.

• EPH - Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Anne Pistell
• F&ES- Professor Michelle Bell

Master of International and Development Economics
The IDE program, which is administered by the Economic Growth Center on behalf of Yale's Department of Economics, is designed to provide academic training to students whose careers are or will be in the area of economic development or international economics.  The joint program with F&ES allows those interested in integrating their training in economics with a world-class environmental education.

• Economics - Professor Robert Evenson
• F&ES - Professor Robert Mendelsohn

Master of International Relations
The Graduate Program in International Relations (IR) offers students an opportunity to study international relations and gain a strong grounding in the theories of the cores disciplines of international relations – economics, history and political science – while addressing policy and applied concerns.  The joint degree program prepares professionals in the scientific, political and economic aspects of international resource management and environmental issues.

• International and Area Studies -- Director, Cheryl Doss
• F&ES - Professor Michael Dove

Master of Arts and Religion 
The Master of Arts in Religion (MAR), either a comprehensive two-year program of preparation for one of the many forms of lay ministry or service, or a concentrated two- or three-year program of advanced study in a particular area.  The joint degree program allows students to explore the role of the environment through a theological lens.

• Divinity - Associate Academic Dean, David Bartlett
• F&ES - Professor Stephen Kellert

Master of Architecture (MArch I or II)
This joint degree program provides future practitioners of the environment and architecture with the knowledge and skills of these historically separate disciplines so they can assume positions of leadership for shaping the built environment in ways that sustain both people and the planet.

• Architecture - Professor James Axley
• F&ES - Professor Stephen Kellert