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2023 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools in Tennessee

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$35,105 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Environmental Engineering School for You

Environmental Engineering is the #117 most popular major in Tennessee with 13 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools in Tennessee ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Tennessee to see which ones offered the best value programs for environmental engineering students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools in Tennessee

Check out the environmental engineering programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Tennessee Schools for Affordable Quality in Environmental Engineering

$13,244 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named The University of Tennessee - Knoxville the best value school in Tennessee for environmental engineering students. UT Knoxville is a fairly large public school located in the city of Knoxville.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UT Knoxville are $13,244 per year.

UT Knoxville did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Environmental Engineering Schools in Tennessee list.

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#2

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN
$56,966 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Vanderbilt University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Vanderbilt is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Nashville.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Vanderbilt are $56,966 a year.

Vanderbilt also made our Best Environmental Engineering Schools in Tennessee list, coming in at #1.

Read full report on Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University

Best Value Environmental Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 12
Florida 79
Georgia 41
North Carolina 15
Kentucky 2
Alabama 4
South Carolina 24
Arkansas 0
West Virginia 3

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

Majors Similar to Environmental Engineering

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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