Environmental Engineering at University of Central Florida

If you are interested in studying environmental engineering, you may want to check out the program at University of Central Florida. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UCF is located in Orlando, Florida and approximately 71,881 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 31 environmental engineering majors received their bachelor's degree from UCF.

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.

UCF Environmental Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Engineering
• Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering
• Doctorate Degree in Environmental Engineering

Online Classes Are Available at UCF

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? UCF offers distance education options for environmental engineering at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

UCF Environmental Engineering Rankings

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

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 UCF 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
	18
Best Value Environmental Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	35
Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	47

In 2021, 5 students received their master’s degree in environmental engineering from UCF. This makes it the #43 most popular school for environmental engineering master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 2 students who received their doctoral degrees in environmental engineering, making the school the #26 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Earnings of UCF Environmental Engineering Graduates

The median salary of environmental engineering students who receive their bachelor's degree at UCF is $55,873. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $56,263 for all environmental engineering students.

Environmental Engineering Student Demographics at UCF

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

UCF Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 55% of environmental engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 45% went to women.

About 65% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering at UCF are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 9% 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 Central Florida with a bachelor's in environmental engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	20
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

UCF Environmental Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 5 environmental engineering students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from UCF, about 60% were men and 40% were women.

In the environmental engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 40% of degree recipients. That is 13% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Central Florida with a master's in environmental engineering.

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

UCF also has a doctoral program available in environmental engineering. In 2021, 2 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Biomedical Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Industrial 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 FL, the home state for University of Central Florida.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Architectural and Engineering Managers	7,030	$129,850
Environmental Engineers	1,480	$80,540
Engineering Professors	1,170	$117,170
Health and Safety Engineers	830	$80,170

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 Breezy Baldwin under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.