2023 Most Popular Environmental Engineering Schools
Finding the Best Environmental Engineering School for You
In 2020-2021, 919 people earned a degree or certificate in environmental engineering, making the major the #144 most popular in the United States.
There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. 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.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Most Popular Environmental Engineering Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 97 schools in the United States to see which programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Environmental Engineering program at each school on the list.
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2023 Most Popular Environmental Engineering Schools in the United States
The colleges and universities below are the most popular for environmental engineering majors pursuing a .
Top 15% Most Popular Environmental Engineering Schools
Our analysis found Johns Hopkins University to be the most popular school for environmental engineering students who want to pursue a degree in the United States. Located in the large city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
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The excellent programs at University of Florida helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best environmental engineering schools in the United States. UF is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Gainesville.
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The excellent programs at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best environmental engineering schools in the United States. UIUC is a very large public school located in the city of Champaign.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Most Popular Environmental Engineering Schools list. U-M is a very large public school located in the city of Ann Arbor.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Southern California. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Most Popular Environmental Engineering Schools list. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.
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Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for environmental engineering students. It came in at #6 on the list. Located in the city of Atlanta, Georgia Tech is a public school with a fairly large student population.
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Columbia University in the City of New York did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for environmental engineering students. It came in at #7 on the list. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
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Stevens Institute of Technology came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Environmental Engineering Schools ranking. Located in the suburb of Hoboken, Stevens is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.
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California State University - Fullerton did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for environmental engineering students. It came in at #9 on the list. Cal State Fullerton is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Fullerton.
Clemson University came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Environmental Engineering Schools ranking. Clemson is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Clemson.
University of New Haven landed the #11 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular environmental engineering programs. University of New Haven is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of West Haven.
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Yale University landed the #12 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular environmental engineering programs. Yale is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of New Haven.
Purdue University - Main Campus came in at #13 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Environmental Engineering Schools ranking. Purdue is a fairly large public school located in the city of West Lafayette.
New York University ranked #14 on this year’s Most Popular Environmental Engineering Schools list. NYU is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of New York.
University of South Florida - Main Campus came in at #14 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Environmental Engineering Schools ranking. USF Tampa is a very large public school located in the large city of Tampa.
Honorable Mentions
Here are some additional popular schools for Environmental Engineering students that almost earned our Most Popular Environmental Engineering Schools award.
| Rank | College | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | University of Colorado Boulder | Boulder, CO |
| 17 | The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX |
| 18 | Arizona State University - Tempe | Tempe, AZ |
| 19 | University of Cincinnati - Main Campus | Cincinnati, OH |
| 19 | North Carolina State University | Raleigh, NC |
Environmental Engineering by Region
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Environmental Engineering Related Majors
One of 39 majors within the area of study, environmental engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Related Majors
| 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 25 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.
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