2025 Best General Environmental Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region
8Colleges in the Southwest Region
331Environmental Engineering Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in general environmental engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #240 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 8 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for general environmental engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 331 degrees in general environmental engineering annually.
Choosing a Great General Environmental Engineering School
Your choice of general environmental engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general environmental engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
General Environmental Engineering Rankings by Degree Level
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best General Environmental Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for General Environmental Engineering in the Southwest Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the environmental engineering degree levels they offer.
Top Southwest Region Schools in Environmental Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in general environmental engineering. Located in the large city of Austin, UT Austin is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #46 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UT Austin is a great university overall.
There were about 64 general environmental engineering students who graduated with this degree at UT Austin in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in general environmental engineering needs to take a look at Texas A&M University - College Station. Located in the medium-sized city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #42 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Texas A&M College Station is a great university overall.More information about a degree in general environmental engineering from Texas A&M University - College Station
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general environmental engineering. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Norman, University of Oklahoma is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 1st out of 31 schools for overall quality in the state of Oklahoma.
There were about 27 general environmental engineering students who graduated with this degree at University of Oklahoma in the most recent year we have data available.
Arizona State University - Tempe is a great option for students interested in a degree in general environmental engineering. ASU - Tempe is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Tempe. A Best Colleges rank of #108 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means ASU - Tempe is a great university overall.
There were approximately 59 general environmental engineering students who graduated with this degree at ASU - Tempe in the most recent data year.
Texas Tech is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Lubbock. A Best Colleges rank of #161 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Texas Tech is a great university overall.
There were approximately 36 general environmental engineering students who graduated with this degree at Texas Tech in the most recent data year.
Located in the city of Houston, UH is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 14th out of 115 schools for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were roughly 8 general environmental engineering students who graduated with this degree at UH in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Flagstaff, NAU is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 7th out of 26 colleges for overall quality in the state of Arizona.
There were about 33 general environmental engineering students who graduated with this degree at NAU in the most recent data year.
Located in the large city of El Paso, UTEP is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 49th out of 115 schools for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were about 19 general environmental engineering students who graduated with this degree at UTEP in the most recent data year.
Rankings in Majors Related to Environmental Engineering
General Environmental Engineering is one of 0 different types of Environmental Engineering programs to choose from.
Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
Your choice of general environmental engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general environmental engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
