2025 Best Environmental Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools

Environmental Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #99 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of environmental engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 172 doctor's degrees in environmental engineering during the <nil> academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to environmental engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of environmental engineering students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt environmental engineering students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized environmental engineering related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for environmental engineering students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Environmental Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Environmental Engineering in the United States

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for environmental engineering students seeking a a doctor's degree.

Top Schools for a Doctorate in Environmental Engineering

1

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY

10 Annual Graduates

Columbia University in the City of New York is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in environmental engineering. Columbia is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York.More information about a doctorate in environmental engineering from Columbia University in the City of New York

2

The University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX

12 Annual Graduates

The University of Texas at El Paso is a great option for individuals interested in a doctor's degree in environmental engineering. UTEP is a very large public university located in the large city of El Paso.More information about a doctorate in environmental engineering from The University of Texas at El Paso

Environmental Engineering by Region

View the Best Environmental Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Rankings in Majors Related to Environmental Engineering

One of 41 majors within the Engineering area of study, Environmental Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Environmental Engineering Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Environmental Engineering	172

Majors Similar to Environmental Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	2,178
Mechanical Engineering	1,842
Biomedical Engineering	1,361
Civil Engineering	1,240
Chemical Engineering	1,120
Materials Engineering	772
General Engineering	458
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	428
Computer Engineering	392
Industrial Engineering	346

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).
• 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.