2023 Best Value Environmental Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Illinois
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Environmental Engineering Master's Degree School for You
Environmental Engineering is the #182 most popular major in Illinois with 71 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.
It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.
The Best Value Environmental Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Illinois to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for environmental engineering students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Environmental Engineering
Our 2023 rankings named University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign the best value school in Illinois for environmental engineering students working on their master’s degree. UIUC is a very large public school located in the small city of Champaign.
In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UIUC are $17,823 per year.
UIUC also took the #3 spot in our Best Environmental Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois rankings.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Illinois Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Environmental Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. Illinois Tech is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.
Illinois Tech graduate students pay an average of $30,822 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
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Explore all the Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Michigan | 122 |
| Ohio | 103 |
| Indiana | 88 |
| Wisconsin | 36 |
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Majors Related to Environmental Engineering
One of 40 majors within the area of study, environmental engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.
Majors Similar to Environmental Engineering
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 46,178 |
| Electrical Engineering | 28,844 |
| Civil Engineering | 21,388 |
| Computer Engineering | 17,987 |
| Chemical Engineering | 12,917 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Credit for the banner image above goes to U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alesia Goosic.
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