Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso

If you plan to study environmental engineering, take a look at what The University of Texas at El Paso has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UTEP is located in El Paso, Texas and approximately 24,879 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Environmental Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

UTEP Environmental Engineering Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering

UTEP Environmental Engineering Rankings

There were 3 students who received their doctoral degrees in environmental engineering, making the school the #15 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Environmental Engineering Student Demographics at UTEP

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the environmental engineering majors at The University of Texas at El Paso.

UTEP Environmental Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 63% of environmental engineering master's degrees went to men and 38% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 46% men graduate in environmental engineering each year. UTEP does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 17% more men than average.

In the environmental engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 75% of degree recipients. That is 47% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from The University of Texas at El Paso with a master's in environmental engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	0
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Environmental Engineering

The following environmental engineering concentations are available at The University of Texas at El Paso. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from The University of Texas at El Paso. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Environmental Engineering	13

Related Majors

• General Engineering
• Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Materials Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Electrical Engineering

Careers That Environmental Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in environmental engineering can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TX, the home state for The University of Texas at El Paso.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Architectural and Engineering Managers	12,920	$167,280
Engineering Professors	3,890	$123,200
Health and Safety Engineers	3,640	$104,580
Environmental Engineers	3,230	$102,660

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Adrian Garcia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.