Environmental Engineering at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

If you plan to study environmental engineering, take a look at what New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

New Mexico Tech is located in Socorro, New Mexico and approximately 1,686 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.

New Mexico Tech Environmental Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Engineering

New Mexico Tech Environmental Engineering Rankings

The environmental engineering major at New Mexico Tech 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 New Mexico Tech

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the environmental engineering majors at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

New Mexico Tech Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 100% of environmental engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 0% went to women. The typical environmental engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% men. So male students are more repesented at New Mexico Tech since its program graduates 54% more men than average.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering at New Mexico Tech are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 6% 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 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology with a bachelor's in environmental engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Environmental Engineering

Environmental Engineering majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Environmental Engineering	11

Related Majors

• Civil Engineering
• Mining Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Petroleum Engineering

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 NM, the home state for New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

Occupation	Jobs in NM	Average Salary in NM
Architectural and Engineering Managers	1,590	$163,260
Environmental Engineers	420	$95,720
Health and Safety Engineers	280	$116,350

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 Atomic Energy505 under License

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