Environmental Engineering at Cornell University

If you plan to study environmental engineering, take a look at what Cornell University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Cornell is located in Ithaca, New York and approximately 23,620 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 37 students received a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering from Cornell.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Environmental Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

Cornell Environmental Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Engineering

Cornell Environmental Engineering Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the environmental engineering progam at Cornell compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The environmental engineering major at Cornell is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Environmental Engineering. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	7
Most Popular Environmental Engineering Schools	19

How Much Do Environmental Engineering Graduates from Cornell Make?

The median salary of environmental engineering students who receive their bachelor's degree at Cornell is $61,768. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 10% higher than the national average of $56,263 for all environmental engineering bachelor's degree recipients.

Environmental Engineering Student Demographics at Cornell

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the environmental engineering majors at Cornell University.

Cornell Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Program

Of the 37 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering from Cornell in 2020-2021, 30% were men and 70% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 11% more racial-ethnic minorities in its environmental engineering bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's in environmental engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	18
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Cornell also has a doctoral program available in environmental engineering. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Engineering Mechanics
• General Engineering
• Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering
• Agricultural Engineering
• Engineering Physics

Careers That Environmental Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in environmental engineering can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Cornell University.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Architectural and Engineering Managers	7,330	$161,670
Environmental Engineers	3,100	$90,470
Engineering Professors	2,900	$127,010
Health and Safety Engineers	1,830	$95,530

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Notyourbroom under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.