Audubon Expedition Institute at Lesley University is the only fully-accredited college program affiliated with a national environmental organization - the National Audubon Society. The program offers offers MS degrees in Environmental Education and in Ecological Teaching and Leadership and a BS in Environmental Science in an academically rigorous alternative to traditional colleges and universities for students pursuing a deeper ecological understanding of environmental education, leadership and advocacy. Our goal is to create experiential learning communities that inspire informed and compassionate ecological leadership. Single-year and semester options for studying in Alaska, Hawai'i, the Desert Southwest, and other regions are also available. AEI students learn from the land itself, as dorms are replaced with sleeping out under the stars, and a portion of each semester is spent in the backcountry. Our teachers include fjords, coral reefs, ancient forests, barrier islands, desert canyons, Pacific Rim volcanoes, and alpine valleys. Our students also see, first hand, environmental impacts on these areas. They visit places such as oil fields and mineral mines, nuclear waste repositories, hydro-electric dams, clear cut forests, paper pulp mills, and inner-cities. In the Environmental Education program, three semesters are spent traveling on the bus learning from people in the field, and, during the fourth semester, students apply their skills by working directly with organizations that institute positive environmental change. The Ecological Teaching and Learning program is designed for working education professionals who spend two summer semesters in the field, studying and living within a learning community, work online for two semesters, and complete a practicum in their workplace the final semester. Undergraduate students spend two years on the bus with graduate students and have several options for their junior and senior years. The program is based on the assumption that the best way to truly learn about the environment is to experience it directly. As W. B. Yeats once wrote, "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." This belief permeates every aspect of the AEI program. For more information including: degrees available, starting dates, financial aid, and career services: Inquire Now by submitting the short form below, or click here to learn more at AEI's web site. Want More Information? Submit this Request   or   Call: (888) 287-2234 First Name:    Last Name: Email:    Phone:(+ area code): Address: City:  State (or Province):  Zip:  Country: High School Graduation Year/GED: Education Level of Interest: Select B.S. in Environmental Studies M.S. Environmental Education M.S. Ecological Teaching and Learning Single Field Semester Two Field Semesters (Full Year) Your Environmental Interests: What's Important to You?  |  Other Interests?  |  Questions?