Posted by Heidi Schwartz
OnlineSchoolsCenter.com has released its list of the Top 50 Green Schools recognizing colleges and universities that go above and beyond for their students, the environment, the community, and the school as a whole to provide an environmentally conscious campus life.
Schools included in the list boast multiple, simple, and complex means of contributing to the planet’s health in ways including, but not limited to, sustainability, clean energy, solar power, recycling, landscape management, and more. Not only are these colleges and universities green, they also offer programs for students who are interested in conservation and sustainability—as well as many hands-on efforts in and around the campus and community.
Below are OnlineSchoolsCenter.com’s picks of the Top 50 Green Schools:
50. Syracuse University – Syracuse, NY
49. Bentley University – Waltham, MA
48. University of Central Oklahoma – Edmond, OK
47. University of Missouri – Columbia, MO
46. University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) – Saint Paul and Minneapolis, MN
45. University of Colorado at Boulder – Boulder, CO
44. Ithaca College – Ithaca, NY
43. University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point – Stevens Point, WI
42. Carnegie Mellon University – Pittsburgh, PA
41. University of California – Los Angeles – Los Angeles, CA
40. Pomona College – Claremont, CA
39. University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, PA
38. Quinnipiac University – Hamden, CT
37. The Catholic University of America – Washington, DC
36. The City University of New York – New York City, NY
35. University of Wisconsin – Madison, WI
34. University at Buffalo, SUNY – Buffalo, NY
33. University of Tennessee – Knoxville – Knoxville, TN
32. University of Utah – Salt Lake City, UT
31. Northwestern University – Evanston and Chicago, IL
30. Oklahoma State University – Stillwater, OK
29. Georgetown University – Washington, DC
28. University of Oklahoma – Norman, OK
27. Iowa State University – Ames, IA
26. College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor) – Bar Harbor, ME
25. University of California – Santa Cruz – Santa Cruz, CA
24. Colgate University – Hamilton, NY
23. California State University – Chico – Chico, CA
22. Middlebury College – Middlebury, VT
21. University of Colorado at Colorado Springs – Colorado Springs, CO
20. State University of New York – Stony Brook University – Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY
19. University of Vermont – Burlington, VT
18. Colorado State University – Fort Collins, CO
17. Santa Clara University – Santa Clara, CA
16. Harvard College/Harvard University – Cambridge, MA
15. University of New Hampshire – Durham, NH
14. Portland State University – Portland, OR
13. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Champaign-Urbana, IL
12. Columbia University – Manhattan, NY
11. University of Washington at Seattle – Seattle, WA
10. Cornell University – Ithaca, NY
9. Georgia Institute of Technology – Atlanta, GA
8. Green Mountain College – Poultney, VT
7. Stanford University – Stanford, CA
6. Lewis and Clark College – Portland, OR
5. University of California at Irvine – Irvine, CA
4. University of Massachusetts – Amherst – Amherst, MA
3. University of California – Santa Barbara – Santa Barbara, CA
2. Dickinson College – Carlisle, PA
1. American University – Washington, DC
