Environmental Engineering at University of California - Berkeley

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

UC Berkeley is located in Berkeley, California and has a total student population of 42,327.

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.

UC Berkeley Environmental Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Engineering

UC Berkeley Environmental Engineering Rankings

The environmental engineering major at UC Berkeley 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 UC Berkeley

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

UC Berkeley Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 40% of environmental engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 60% went to women.

About 60% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering at UC Berkeley are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 2% 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 University of California - Berkeley with a bachelor's in environmental engineering.

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

Concentrations Within Environmental Engineering

The following environmental engineering concentations are available at University of California - Berkeley. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of California - Berkeley. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Environmental Engineering	9

Related Majors

• General Engineering
• Biochemical Engineering
• Other Engineering
• Engineering Physics
• Engineering Science

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 CA, the home state for University of California - Berkeley.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Architectural and Engineering Managers	31,580	$175,010
Environmental Engineers	8,790	$105,480
Engineering Professors	2,400	$129,790
Health and Safety Engineers	2,340	$107,290

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 LAgirl5252 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.