2022 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut

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In 2019-2020, 2,802 people earned their degree in environmental engineering, making the major the 166th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, environmental engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $52,600 and had an average of $23,573 in loans still to pay off.

Across Connecticut, there were 95 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $23,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 49 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,793 and $40,407 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in environmental engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent environmental engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the environmental engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Engineering in Connecticut

#1

University of Hartford

West Hartford, Connecticut

#2 in overall quality

$14,847 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hartford. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut. UHart is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in West Hartford, Connecticut. It awarded 3 masters’s environmental engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UHart did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Environmental Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Hartford are $14,847, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Environmental Engineering at UHart

#2

University of New Haven

West Haven, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$17,610 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Haven landed the #2 spot on the list. West Haven, Connecticut is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s environmental engineering degrees to 21 students in 2019-2020.

University of New Haven did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Environmental Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of New Haven are $17,610.

Full University of New Haven Environmental Engineering Report

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alesia Goosic.

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