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2023 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools in Maryland

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$12,280 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$74,419 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Environmental Engineering School for You

Environmental Engineering is the #76 most popular major in Maryland with 62 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools in Maryland ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Maryland to see which programs offered the best value experiences for environmental engineering students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools in Maryland

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Environmental Engineering Colleges.

Best Maryland Schools for Affordable Quality in Environmental Engineering

$12,280 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Maryland - Baltimore County the best value school in Maryland for environmental engineering students. Located in the large suburb of Baltimore, UMBC is a public college with a large student population.

UMBC undergraduate students pay an average of $12,280 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Environmental Engineering at University of Maryland - Baltimore County Report

#2

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD
$58,720 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, Johns Hopkins University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Johns Hopkins are $58,720 a year.

Johns Hopkins did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Environmental Engineering Schools in Maryland list.

Full Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University Report

Best Value Environmental Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Environmental Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 85
Pennsylvania 36
New Jersey 34

One of 39 majors within the area of study, environmental engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alesia Goosic.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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