Many students care deeply about the environment and sustainability and want to incorporate their passion about the Earth into their college experience. But how to choose a college that best facilitates that?

Colleges' commitment to climate action manifests in a variety of ways. Many colleges focus on implementing sustainability on campus, so students can rest assured that not only is their day-to-day life at the institution they attend eco-friendly, but also that their college is upholding a commitment to care for the environment alongside the students. Some colleges prioritize funding environmental research. Colleges tackle this from different angles, including politics, economics, engineering, ecology, earth science, and more. The research a college conducts is important for prospective undergraduates to consider because they will get to learn directly from the faculty responsible for such meaningful work and may even have the opportunity to contribute to the research themselves. Finally, although most colleges offer some course of study related to the environment, certain colleges go above and beyond, whether that be through the breadth of courses and educational resources focused on sustainability, the strength and rigor of one particular program, or the number of majors beyond environmental science that relate to climate action.

From a multitude of sources with differing perspectives and priorities, we've comprised a list of the 30 best colleges for climate action. Continue reading to learn more about each.

Here's our updated list of reported overall admission rates for the Class of 2027. Results are now available for American University, Amherst College, Barnard College, Bates College, Boston College, Boston University, Bowdoin, Brigham Young University, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Bucknell, Carnegie Mellon, Colby College, Colgate, Colorado College, Columbia University, Cornell, Dartmouth, Denison, Duke, Elon, Emory College and Oxford at Emory, Fairfield University, Florida State, Fordham, Georgetown, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Holy Cross, Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, Macalester, Middlebury, MIT, Northwestern, Notre Dame, NYU, Pitzer College, Rice, Santa Clara University, Smith College, Swarthmore, Tufts, Tulane, University of Georgia, University of Richmond, University of Southern California, University of Vermont, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, VillanovaWellesley, Wesleyan, Williams College and Yale.  Latest year application totals are available for many more.

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Here's our updated list of reported early decision and early action admission rates for the Class of 2027.

This list includes results from Amherst College, Boston College, Boston University, Brown, Colorado College, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Fordham University, Georgetown, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Middlebury, MIT, Notre Dame, Rice, University of Georgia, USC, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, Washington University in St. Louis, Williams College and Yale.  

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For those of you who have been waitlisted at one of your top choices, here's our initial update of Class of 2027 waitlist notification dates and status where available.  

To get a sense for what's happening at the macro level, we took a look at recently released Fall 2022 waitlist statistics from 101 private and public institutions.  Our analysis paints the following picture:

• The number of students admitted from the waitlist declined 3 percent year over year from 26,000 for the Class of 2025 to 20,000 for the Class of 2026

• On average, 19 percent of Fall 2022 students accepting a place on a waitlist were admitted, unchanged from the previous year

• Students admitted from the waitlist accounted for 8 percent of Fall 2022 enrollments, down slightly from 9 percent for Fall 2021

• 62 percent of the schools sampled admitted 10 percent or less of the students accepting a place on the waitlist for Fall 2022 (vs. 57 percent for the Fall 2021)

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Here's our updated list of regular decision notification dates for the Class of 2027.  As many of you know, schools often post results in advance of their "official" notification dates, so we've compiled the most recently updated dates for you here, along with the notification dates from last year.  Bookmark this site, as we'll post updates often.

Good luck, seniors!

Georgetown announced today that it admitted 13 percent of applicants to the Class of 2027.  

A total of 3,263 students were admitted out of 25,519 applicants.  

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Duke announced today that it offered regular admission to 2,148 students for the Class of 2027.

A total of 44,489 regular decision applications were received, resulting in a regular decision acceptance rate of 4.6 percent.  

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Emory University announced today it admitted 5,445 applicants to the Class of 2027.

A total of 33,534 applications were received.

A total of 3,428 were offered admission to Emory College and 3,335 were offered admission to Oxford College.  61 percent of applicants applied to both colleges and 1,376 were accepted to both.

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Columbia University announced it admitted 3.9 percent of applicants to the Class of 2027.

2,246 applicants were admitted from a total pool of 57,129 applications.

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Brown announced today that it admitted 5 percent of applicants to the Class of 2027.  

A total of 51,302 applications were received for the year.

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Yale announced today that it admitted 2,275 applicants to the Class of 2027.

A total of 52,250 applications were received this year, resulting in an overall admission rate of 4.4 percent. 

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Dartmouth announced today that it accepted 1,751 applicants to the Class of 2027.  

Applications totaled 28,841 for the year, resulting in an overall acceptance rate of 6 percent.

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Harvard announced it admitted 1,942 applicants to the Class of 2027.  

A total of 56,937 applications were received, down 7 percent from the previous yeart. 

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Smith College announced today that it admitted 19 percent of applicants to the Class of 2027.  

A total of 9,868 applications were received, up 36 percent over last year.  

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Rice University announced today that it admitted 7.7 percent of applicants to the Class of 2027.  

A total of 2,399 students were accepted from a pool of 31,049 applicants.  

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