Program Description
Students can earn a degree in this high-demand field with excellent employment and salary opportunities. The safety profession focuses on keeping people safe while also preventing harm to property and the environment. They can gain hands-on experience with current laboratory and field technology, paid internships, participation in premier conferences, and applied projects. This degree offers three Options to select from: Environmental Management, Safety Management, and Occupational Health Management.
The Occupational Safety BS program's Safety Management option offers the opportunity to customize the course work with approved electives or the inclusion of a minor. Excellent minors include business, construction management, psychology, criminal justice, and core sciences such as chemistry, biology, geoscience and physics.
All Occupational Safety majors are awarded the Graduate Safety Practitioner (GSP) designation upon application at graduation. A GSP is an alternate path to the professional certification of Certified Safety Professional (CSP). Only students who graduate from a designated Qualified Academic Program through the Board of Certified Safety Professionals are eligible for the GSP designation, making it highly respected.
