2025 Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in
environmental engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #136 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 6 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of environmental engineering. Combined, these schools handed out 196 bachelor's degrees in environmental engineering to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Environmental Engineering School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The environmental engineering bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality environmental engineering program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on environmental engineering students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of environmental engineering students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Student Debt - How much debt environmental engineering students go into to obtain their bachelor'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 complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for environmental engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Environmental Engineering Schools
The environmental engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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