University of Wisconsin–Madison
Students and Bucky Badger walk through campus carrying handmade sustainability signs.

Student Opportunities

Students are essential to sustainability at UW–Madison. Through courses, jobs, research, extracurriculars, and everyday choices, Badgers build skills and experiences while helping advance sustainability across campus and beyond.

Find your place in sustainability

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Academics

There are countless ways to study sustainability at UW–Madison. Across courses, programs, certificates, and disciplines, every student can make sustainability part of their education.

Green Fund

Have an idea for making campus more sustainable? The Green Fund connects students with the expertise, partnerships, and support to turn their big ideas into realized projects.

A group of student sustainability interns in red shirts pose outdoors around three large inflatable globes on a grassy lawn.

Jobs & Internships

Build skills, make connections, and see where sustainability can take you. Explore opportunities, including UW–Madison’s campus and corporate internship programs.

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Student Organizations

You’re just a few clicks away from finding community among UW–Madison’s 50+ sustainability-related student organizations.

Sustainability is a team sport

Across campus, Badgers are turning ambitious goals into measurable progress.

Badgers live sustainably

On a campus with more than 50,000 students, everyday choices add up. Explore resources that support students and sustainability.

Take a closer look

Discover sustainability projects, spaces, and stories across campus.

Across Campus

Three students in yellow protective gear and red helmets smile and make “W” hand signs while standing with drip torches in a smoky prairie during a prescribed burn.

UW–Madison uses prescribed fire to restore prairies and oak savannas while training students, volunteers, and landowners to carry the work forward.

Close-up of handmade paper and woven fiber samples.
A student stands along the Arno River in Florence, looking toward the Ponte Santa Trinita and historic buildings reflected in the water.
Nick, in a red hard hat and t-shirt, smiles on the tour of the recycling facility
A student crouches beside two large red chalkboards on East Campus Mall, adding to a “Why I love UW” message next to an Earth Fest design featuring Bucky Badger and the planet.

Stay connected!

Stay in the loop on sustainability jobs, events, opportunities, and progress.