Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University

What traits are you looking for in a environmental engineering school? To help you decide if Northwestern University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's environmental engineering program.

Northwestern is located in Evanston, Illinois and approximately 22,603 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 12 students received a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering from Northwestern.

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.

Northwestern Environmental Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Engineering

Northwestern Environmental Engineering Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The environmental engineering major at Northwestern 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
	9

Environmental Engineering Student Demographics at Northwestern

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

Northwestern Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Program

Of the 12 environmental engineering students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Northwestern, about 25% were men and 75% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 15% 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 Northwestern University with a bachelor's in environmental engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	6
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Northwestern 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
• Engineering Physics
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Chemical 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 IL, the home state for Northwestern University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Architectural and Engineering Managers	9,760	$136,270
Environmental Engineers	1,410	$92,200
Engineering Professors	1,330	$114,010
Health and Safety Engineers	570	$88,320

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 Madcoverboy at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.