Focus on the many ways that environments we design can affect human physical health, mental health, and health-related behaviors. These explorations span various settings from home and community to schools, workplace, and healthcare settings.
Explore the development and application of various technologies, from virtual and augmented reality to architectural robotics, to foster the creation of beautiful environments that support/augment human activity and well-being.
This multi-disciplinary concentration focuses on the inter-relations between humans and the physical environment at various scales.
Focus on the planning, design, and management of facilities for complex organizations such a corporations, health care institutions and universities.
Examine the development of a new worldview founded on a skeptical, critical approach to reasoning, a deep sensitivity for things living, and a broad understanding of the historical and cultural contexts of the human/nature relationship.
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The career trajectories of our graduates are diverse. Some work as designers, design researchers, design educators, ergonomists or environmental psychologists. Some pursue Ph.D.s in fields such as design research, psychology, human-computer interaction, architecture and gerontology.
No, you must make a choice before applying.
If you would like to schedule a visit, you should first make an appointment with jy846 [at] cornell.edu (DEA’s director of graduate studies). If you would like to meet with our other faculty, you should also schedule meetings with them while you are on campus. The Visit Cornell and Visit Ithaca websites provide additional resources.
No. There are no prior degree requirements for any of the concentrations within the M.S. Our students often have undergraduate degrees in psychology, architecture or interior design, as well as English, economics, anthropology and other fields.
All applicants must take the GRE and submit scores. The GRE can be retaken, but scores must be submitted by the application deadline.
We strongly recommend that you take tests early enough to submit scores by the application deadline. However, if your official scores have not arrived by the due date, but your unofficial scores have, we may hold your application if approved by the director of graduate studies. Your scores are automatically reported to Cornell by the testing service (ETS) as soon as they are ready, and the graduate field assistant will automatically add them to your application packet.
Cornell’s institutional test code for ETS is 2098. The DEA code is 4499.
Letters of recommendation should come from people who can best assess the qualities, characteristics and capabilities of the applicant; they do not need to be faculty.
We recommend a GPA of 3.0 (minimum), but this is not an absolute cutoff.
Use the self-service tool the check that your application is complete.
Our graduate field assistant may, as a courtesy, send you a reminder if you have missing information when the committee begins to review applications.
Yes. The M.S. in Human Environment Relations is STEM certified.
Yes. The M.S. is an in person degree and students are expected to live near campus for the duration. Cornell provides some graduate student housing. The Cornell off-campus housing marketplace is another resource.
Yes, as long as the faculty member is a member of the graduate field you would like to minor in.
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