Environmental Engineering at University of Delaware

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

UD is located in Newark, Delaware and has a total student population of 23,613. Of the 4,743 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Delaware in 2021, 23 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.

UD Environmental Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Engineering

UD Environmental Engineering Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks environmental engineering programs across the country. The following shows how UD 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 UD 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
Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	24

Earnings of UD Environmental Engineering Graduates

The median salary of environmental engineering students who receive their bachelor's degree at UD is $55,640. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $56,263 for all environmental engineering students.

Environmental Engineering Student Demographics at UD

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

UD Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Program

Of the 23 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering from UD in 2020-2021, 35% were men and 65% were women.

About 70% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering at UD are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

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

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

Related Majors

• Ocean Engineering
• Robotics Engineering
• Construction Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Biomedical 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 DE, the home state for University of Delaware.

Occupation	Jobs in DE	Average Salary in DE
Architectural and Engineering Managers	370	$157,490
Engineering Professors	230	$78,470
Environmental Engineers	140	$84,480
Health and Safety Engineers	110	$107,040

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 Ottawa80 at English Wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.