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2023 Most Popular Environmental Engineering Schools in the New England Region

8 Colleges
$57,521 Avg Salary
$25,616 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Environmental Engineering School for You

Environmental Engineering is the #144 most popular major in the country with 919 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Most Popular Environmental Engineering Schools in the New England Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 8 schools in the New England Region 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.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Environmental Engineering Colleges.

#1

University of New Haven

West Haven, CT

Our 2023 rankings named University of New Haven the most popular school in the New England Region for environmental engineering students. University of New Haven is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of West Haven.

Full Environmental Engineering at University of New Haven Report

#2

Yale University

New Haven, CT

Out of the 8 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Yale University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Yale is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of New Haven.

Full Environmental Engineering at Yale University Report

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a great place for environmental engineering students. Located in the city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

Read full report on Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The excellent programs at University of Connecticut helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best environmental engineering schools in the New England Region . UCONN is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Storrs.

Read full report on Environmental Engineering at University of Connecticut

Out of the 8 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Worcester Polytechnic Institute landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the medium-sized city of Worcester, WPI is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.

Full Environmental Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Report

The excellent programs at University of Massachusetts Amherst helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best environmental engineering schools in the New England Region . UMass Amherst is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Amherst.

Full Environmental Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst Report

#7

University of Hartford

West Hartford, CT

University of Hartford 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. UHart is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of West Hartford.

Full Environmental Engineering at University of Hartford Report

#8

Tufts University

Medford, MA

Tufts University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Environmental Engineering Schools in the New England Region ranking. Located in the suburb of Medford, Tufts is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

Read full report on Environmental Engineering at Tufts University

Best Environmental Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best environmental engineering schools for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 23
Connecticut 56

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 8 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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