Business / Management (MBA)
Joint degree with the Yale School of Management
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Program Overview
Yale University offers a master’s program that combines environmental studies with the study of management. Students in the program draw upon the resources of the highly ranked Yale School of Management and those of Yale’s global school of the environment, the School of the Environment. Upon graduation, they join a collegial network of alumni of the program in business and the environment. The joint degree is strongly supported by the Center for Business and the Environment.
Degrees
Students in the three-year joint program earn one of four School of the Environment degrees — the Master of Environmental Management (MEM), the Master of Environmental Science (MESc), the Master of Forestry (MF), or the Master of Forest Science (MFS) — and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the School of Management.
The joint program reduces the total time of study by one year.
Course of Study
The joint-degree MEM program requires a completion of 36 credits as well as a summer internship and a thesis or a capstone project. In addition, all joint-degree students are required to attend three weeks of technical skills training before beginning their studies at YSE. These are hands-on workshops, offered every August, that teach plant identification, ecosystems management, land measurement, and urban ecosystem analysis. Please see Degree Programs at YSE for more information.
The Yale School of Management (SOM) core curriculum is unique in how it ties together the pieces of a business school education into a meaningful whole. Instead of teaching management topics in separate, single-subject courses like Finance or Marketing, SOM offers a core curriculum of eight multi-disciplinary subjects. Each faculty team teaching a core course is composed of senior professors from several academic fields. This teaching model reflects the fact that managerial careers cross disciplinary boundaries. Please see SOM Curriculum for more information.
Admissions
Each school individually admits students in accordance with its own criteria. Prospective students may apply to the program prior to matriculation by submitting a separate application to each school during a single admissions cycle. For more information on admission, please visit YSE Masters Admissions and the School of Management Admissions.
Tuition
Students pay tuition for three semesters at YSE, and three semesters at the School of Management. For more information on applying for financial aid at YSE, please see the YSE financial aid website. For information on financial aid at SOM, please see the Yale SOM financial aid website. Students must apply for financial aid at each school, and any aid awarded will apply to the semesters in which a student is enrolled at that particular school.
Contact Info
School of the Environment
195 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Phone: 800 825-0330
admissions.yse@yale.edu
Joint Degree Contacts
Stuart DeCew and Brad Gentry
School of Management
165 Whitney Ave.
New Haven, CT 06511
Phone: 203 432-5635
mba.admissions@yale.edu