The Sierra Club has placed UConn at No. 6 in the nature organization’s annual top 10 rankings of the greenest schools in America.
The university in Storrs received the high marks from the Sierra Club for its 300 undergraduate and 111 graduate classes that train students to be eco-citizens, ensuring that 70 percent of UConn graduates have some learning on sustainability.
The Sierra Club picks the top 10 by sending out surveys to all four-year, degree-granting undergraduate U.S. colleges and universities about their campus sustainability practices. This year, 153 schools replied to the surveys.
The No. 1 school was the University of California at Irvine, followed by the University of California at Davis, the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, Colorado State University and Oberlin College in Ohio.
Other Connecticut colleges on the list of 153 schools were Wesleyan University in Middletown (No. 98) and Southern Connecticut State University (No. 125).
