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. Of the 10,523 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of California - Berkeley in 2021, 9 of them were environmental engineering majors.

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

Each year, College Factual ranks environmental engineering programs across the country. The following shows how UC Berkeley performed in these rankings.

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 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
	5
Most Popular Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	66

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

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 9 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering from UC Berkeley. About 44% were men and 56% were women.

About 56% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering at UC Berkeley are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% 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	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	5
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

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.