With a recent boom in clean tech investment and increasing global warming awareness, a new business chapter is unfolding in favor of sustainability and the environment. Higher education is no exception; there are more advanced degree programs that focus on sustainability than ever.

Take the Sustainability MBA as your first example. At least twenty such programs have burst onto the scene in the U.S. alone. The University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School offers an enrichment concentration in Sustainable Enterprise for participants. Related opportunities are also available in the form of practicum projects, clubs, internships, conferences, and more. With an expansive network of non-profit, government, and corporate professionals at students' fingertips, the door is wide open for success in sustainability.

The Johns Hopkins Sustainability Initiative offers both undergraduates and graduates the opportunity to enroll in courses that focus sharply on the environment. Topics range "from policy and public health to climate change," indicating an increasing desire for not only education in related fields, but also professionals with such an academic background. More than twenty other programs across the country boast solid sustainability courses.

Environmental Law courses are strongly emerging as well; there are at least twenty programs for J.D. or L.L.M. students. It seems increasingly difficult to deny that this topic should be close to our hearts and minds when it is making a solid presence in law schools.

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