环境研究系旨在为学生提供解决环境问题和创造可持续发展的未来所必需的广泛知识和技能，范围从地方到全球。它通过面向问题的综合研究和跨学科和学校的广泛课程来做到这一点。纽约大学艺术与科学学院（FAS），大气海洋科学中心（CAOS，库兰特数学科学/ FAS），环境与土地使用法律中心在纽约大学强大的师资基础上有大有小（法学院），生物伦理学硕士课程：生命，健康与环境（卫生学院），环境保护教育课程（斯坦因哈特文化，教育与人类发展学院）以及瓦格纳毕业生公共服务学院，斯特恩商学院，加勒廷个性化学习学院和医学院。该部门提供了
The Department of Environmental Studies aims to provide students with the breadth of understanding and skills necessary for resolving environmental questions and creating a sustainable future on scales ranging from local to global. It does so through integrated, problem-oriented study and a broad range of courses across disciplines and schools. The major and minor draw on NYU’s strong faculty base in Arts and Science (FAS), the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science (CAOS, Courant Institute of Mathematical SciencesFAS), the Center on Environmental and Land Use Law (School of Law), the MA Program in Bioethics (Faculty of Health), and the Environmental Conservation Education program (Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development), as well as in the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, the Stern School of Business, the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and the School of Medicine.The department offers opportunities to develop interests in a number of areas, including environmental science; environmental values, policy, and law; earth system science; public health; urban environmental problems; climate change; energy systems; environmental justice; and our complex relations with both domesticated and wild nature.