Sustainability in Food & Environmental Systems

Major Overview

Admissions Requirements

GPA

It is expected that applicants to this program will have a minimum GPA of 2.5 (A = 4.0).

Coursework

You must complete transfer coursework equivalent to one of the following University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign courses before or during the term you’re submitting your application:

  • ACE 100, Intro to Applied Microecnomics
    • or ECON 102, Microeconomic Principles
  • NRES 102, Introduction to NRES
  • FSHN 101, The Science of Food & How it Relates to You
    • or FSHN 120, Contemporary Nutrition
  • CSPC 112, Introduction to Crop Sciences
    • or HORT 100, Introduction to Horticulture

Admissions Recommendations

Coursework

Although it isn’t required that you do so in order to be admitted, we also recommend that you complete transfer coursework equivalent to the following University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign courses before or during the term you’re submitting your application:

  • CMN 101, Public Speaking
  • RHET 105, Writing & Research(requires a two-course English composition sequence at most schools)
  • STAT 100, Statistics(or equivalent)
  • 6 Hours of Humanities coursework
  • Courses in Policy & Law, Climate Change & Society, Food Production Systems and/or Resources & Influence
  • Quantitative Reasoning course
  • Western Cultural Studies course

Graduation Requirements

To graduate all students are required to complete at least 45 semester hours of credit at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. At least 21 of these credit hours must be at the 300 or 400 level.

General Education Courses

Included in our graduation requirements are general education (gen ed) courses. These classes allow you to gain and use broad knowledge beyond the specialized learning you’ll do through your major. Learn more about our general education requirements. You may be able to use Transferology to find gen ed courses that will transfer over from your institution to Illinois.

Language Other than English

Although this program doesn’t require you to complete our language graduation requirement for admission, we strongly encourage you do so before transferring.

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Learn More About This Major

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