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Environmental Engineering at Cornell University

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.

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 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.

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

73% Women
45% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 27% of environmental engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 73% went to women.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 18% 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.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 6
Black or African American 3
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 15
International Students 2
Other Races/Ethnicities 6

Concentrations Within Environmental Engineering

Environmental Engineering majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Cornell University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
General Environmental Engineering 37

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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