Trent has shaped environmental education in Canada for more than six decades. Future environmental leaders choose Trent for our renowned academic programs, immersive learning experiences, and second-to-none campus that offers unparalleled opportunities to study the environment firsthand. Across more than 15 environmental and sustainability focused degrees, Trent offers one of the broadest ranges of environmental learning opportunities in the country. Through fieldwork, research, paid co-op, placements, and access to specialized and state-of-the-art labs and facilities, you will develop the knowledge and experience to understand today’s environmental challenges and help shape tomorrow’s solutions.
Environmental restoration requires more than understanding ecosystems. It takes the knowledge and practical skills to repair them. At Trent, you'll study ecological restoration through a balance of science, fieldwork, and professional practice, preparing to assess degraded environments, develop restoration strategies, and support more resilient ecosystems.
Explore environmental challenges through multiple ways of knowing. Jointly offered through the Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies and Trent School of the Environment, this interdisciplinary degree brings Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Western science together to examine environmental stewardship, sustainability and community well-being, while preparing you to address complex issues such as climate change, health and food security.
Explore how food moves from farm to table and how environmental, social, cultural, and economic forces shape what we grow, eat and distribute. Through Trent’s Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems program, you’ll examine local and global food systems while building the knowledge to address challenges in sustainable production, food security and access, to create more resilient and responsible food systems.
Understand environmental challenges from scientific and human perspectives at one of Canada’s leading environmental institutions. Choose Environmental & Resource Science (B.Sc.) to develop advanced scientific and industry-level competencies, or Environmental & Resource Studies (B.A.) to explore environmental law, policy, planning and business. Both pathways offer the flexibility of joint majors and specialized study, preparing you to turn environmental knowledge into action.
Explore how chemicals form, move through, and interact with the environment, and investigate the effects of contaminants on ecosystems. Bridging chemistry and environmental science, this program gives students the opportunity to develop technical skills in chemical analysis and modern analytical techniques while tackling issues such as pollution, toxicology, pest control, and climate change. You will graduate with high demand scientific and practical expertise in environmental monitoring, research, consulting, and related fields.
Explore the changing relationships between people, places and the planet through human and physical geography. With flexible joint majors and an emphasis on field-based learning, Geography at Trent lets you shape your degree around the geographic issues that interest you most.
To solve the most pressing environmental challenges, you need to examine them from multiple perspectives and angles. In the B.E.S.S. at Trent, you'll study the environment through both scientific and social perspectives, exploring the connections between ecosystems, climate change, natural resources, policy, planning, and communities while developing practical solutions to real-world environmental issues.
Explore the science of freshwater and build the knowledge and skills to address water quality challenges in Canada and around the world. Drawing on biology, chemistry, geography and environmental science, this degree combines scientific theory with practical learning in the renowned Trent School of the Environment.
Explore the science behind protecting life on Earth in Canada’s first and only Conservation Biology degree of its kind. Investigate biodiversity loss and the impact of human activity on species and ecosystems while building expertise in ecology, evolution, animal and plant diversity, behavior and genetics. Drawing on multiple sciences, you will develop the knowledge and practical skills to design evidence-based solutions to complex conservation challenges.
Build the scientific and technical foundation for a career as a professional geoscientist. Trent’s Environmental Geoscience B.Sc. degree meets the knowledge requirements of Professional Geoscientists Ontario (PGO), preparing you for the pathway toward P.Geo. accreditation. Drawing on geology, biology, chemistry, mathematics and geography, this program explores mineralogy, petrology, geophysics, hydrology and environmental geology. Students tackle and study challenges such as groundwater contamination, climate change and responsible resource development.