2025 Best Environmental Engineering Schools in Massachusetts
4Colleges in Massachusetts
74Environmental Engineering Degrees Awarded
$65,461Avg Early-Career Salary
Environmental Engineering is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #173 out of the 395 majors across the country that we analyze each year. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Environmental Engineering Schools in Massachusetts ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 74 degrees in environmental engineering annually.
Your choice of 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 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.
Environmental Engineering Rankings by Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Environmental Engineering Schools in Massachusetts ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Environmental Engineering in Massachusetts
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the environmental engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Massachusetts Schools in Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a great choice for students interested in a degree in environmental engineering. Located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #1 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means MIT is a great school overall.
There were approximately 14 environmental engineering students who graduated with this degree at MIT in the most recent data year.
Tufts University is a good option for students interested in a degree in environmental engineering. Tufts is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Medford. A Best Colleges rank of #39 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Tufts is a great university overall.
There were about 16 environmental engineering students who graduated with this degree at Tufts in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Worcester Polytechnic Institute if you want to pursue a degree in environmental engineering. WPI is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Worcester. This school ranks 8th out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were roughly 22 environmental engineering students who graduated with this degree at WPI in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Massachusetts - Lowell is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in environmental engineering. Located in the suburb of Lowell, UMass Lowell is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 17th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.More information about a degree in environmental engineering from University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Best Environmental Engineering Colleges in the New England Region
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 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 environmental engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
