Environmental Engineering at University of California - Merced

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

UC Merced is located in Merced, California and approximately 9,018 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,941 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of California - Merced in 2021, 29 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 Merced Environmental Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Engineering

UC Merced Environmental Engineering Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The environmental engineering major at UC Merced 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
Most Focused Environmental Engineering Schools	12
Most Popular Environmental Engineering Schools	34
	84

How Much Do Environmental Engineering Graduates from UC Merced Make?

The median salary of environmental engineering students who receive their bachelor's degree at UC Merced is $40,917. This is less than $56,263, which is the national average of all environmental engineering majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Environmental Engineering Student Demographics at UC Merced

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

UC Merced Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Program

Of the 29 environmental engineering students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from UC Merced, about 52% were men and 48% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 52% 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 - Merced with a bachelor's in environmental engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	16
White	3
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• Materials Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Computer 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 CA, the home state for University of California - Merced.

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.