SBE Career Roadmap

This document provides a brief overview of the various career paths available to Sustainability and the Built Environment students. It outlines several complementary minor and certificate options, relevant student organizations, and resources to explore your career interests further.

Program Overview

SBE is an interdisciplinary STEM program utilizing the broad principles and practices from the DCP professions in a more generalist framework. We perceive and progress through the four dimensional lens of ecological (planet), cultural (purpose), social (people), and economical (prosperity) livelihoods.

Learn about yourself & Career Options

There is no definitive career profile or prototypical path for SBE students. The program prepares students to enter a wide range of fields and graduate degree paths, including but not limited to:

  • Architecture
  • Building Performance
  • Construction Management
  • Interior Design
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Natural Resources and Land Use Management
  • Organizational Sustainability
  • Renewable Energy
  • Urban and Regional Planning

Sample Job Titles

  • Construction Manager
  • Environmental Restoration Planner
  • Geographic Information Systems Technologist
  • Sustainability Analyst/Consultant/Specialist
  • Sustainability Coordinator/Manager/Strategist
  • Urban and Regional Planner
  • Water Resource Specialist

Bright Outlook

Above average growth expected for Construction Managers, Chief Sustainability Officers, Climate Change Policy Analysts, Environmental Restoration Planners, Project Management Specialists, and Sustainability Specialists according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.

Sampling of Employers who recruit at UF

  • Moss & Associates
  • Siemens
  • AECOM
  • Jacobs
  • Kittelson & Associates

Build Experience

  • Ag/Natural Resource Ethics and Policy
  • Anthropology
  • AI Fundamentals and Applications*
  • Architecture
  • Business Administration
  • Environmental Justice and Policy
  • Ethics and Society*
  • Geography
  • Geospatial Information Analysis*
  • Innovation
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Real Estate
  • Sociology
  • Soil, Water and Ecosystem Sciences
  • Urban and Regional Planning

  • American Society of Landscape Architects – Student Chapter
  • Architrave
  • Gainesville Environment Council
  • Green Building Club
  • National Association for Women in Construction
  • Student Planning Association
  • Students for New Urbanism
  • For more information, check out GatorConnect

Read up on what faculty are working on and talk with them about potential opportunities to get involved in research.

The Center for Undergraduate Resources (CUR) resources for students include the UF Research Database, the CUR Canvas where opportunities are shared, and peer advising.

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