Environmental education covers socially significant and demanded specialties and tries to solve urgent environmental problems. Environmental students study climate change, the sustainability of natural resource systems, and the impact of society and industry on the environment.
Bachelor's programs include disciplines such as atmospheric sciences, ecology, environmental chemistry, geophysics, and others.

The duration of the bachelor's programs is from three to five years, the master's programs are from 1-2 years. The duration of candidate programs is from three years. Many universities in Europe offer training in English.

Environmental graduates are in demand in business, manufacturing, consulting, environmental protection organizations. Foreign graduates often stay to work in Europe, taking part in numerous environmental protection projects.
Best Environmental Sciences universities in Europe 2026 - QS World University rankings
| 1 | University of Oxford |
| 2 | Wageningen University & Research |
| 3 | ETH Zurich |
| 4 | University of Cambridge |
| 5 | Imperial College London |
| 6 | Delft University of Technology |
| 7 | Utrecht University |
| 8 | UCL |
| 9 | University of Exeter |
| 10 | Technical University of Denmark |
| 11 | Lund University |
| 12 | Stockholm University |
| 13 | EPFL – École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne |
| 14 | University of Leeds |
| 15 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 16 | The University of Manchester |
| 17 | KU Leuven |
| 18 | Ghent University |
| 19 | Universitat de Barcelona |
| 20 | University of Copenhagen |
| 21 | Aarhus University |
| 22 | Politecnico di Milano |
| 23 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| 24 | Technical University of Munich |
| 25 | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
| 26 | KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| 27 | Lancaster University |
| 28 | University of Helsinki |
| 29 | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| 30 | Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) |
| 31 | Newcastle University |
| 32 | University of East Anglia (UEA) |
| 33 | Norwegian University of Science And Technology |
| 34 | University of Bristol |
| 35 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 36 | Institut Polytechnique de Paris |
| 37 | University of Birmingham |
| 38 | Université de Montpellier |
| 39 | Sorbonne University |
| 40 | Uppsala University |
| 41 | Queen's University Belfast |
| 42 | Université PSL |
| 43 | The University of Sheffield |
| 44 | University of Amsterdam |
| 45 | University of Glasgow |
| 46 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna |
| 47 | RWTH Aachen University |
| 48 | University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna |
| 49 | University of Reading |
| 50 | Université Paris-Saclay |