The main focus area for this major is General Environmental Engineering. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Environmental Engineering is a major offered under the engineering program of study at Wilkes University. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in environmental engineering, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.
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Each year, we produce a number of different types of college rankings to help students decide which school is the best fit for them. The bachelor's program at Wilkes was ranked #63 on College Factual's Best Schools for environmental engineering list. It is also ranked #5 in Pennsylvania.
Here are some of the other rankings for Wilkes.
In 2019-2020, the average part-time undergraduate tuition at Wilkes was $1,107 per credit hour for both in-state and out-of-state students. The average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $36,888 | $36,888 |
Fees | $1,864 | $1,864 |
Books and Supplies | $1,600 | $1,600 |
On Campus Room and Board | $15,400 | $15,400 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $3,193 | $3,193 |
Learn more about Wilkes tuition and fees.
One way to think about how much a school will cost is to look at how much in student loans that you have to take out to get your degree. Students who received their bachelor’s degree at Wilkes in Environmental Engineering walked away with an average of $27,000 in student debt. That is 16% higher than the national average of $23,242.
The median early career salary of environmental engineering students who receive their bachelor’s degree from Wilkes is $54,053 per year. That is 7% higher than the national average of $50,467.
Wilkes does not offer an online option for its environmental engineering bachelor’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Wilkes Online Learning page.
Women made up around 38.1% of the environmental engineering students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is less than the nationwide number of 51.5%.
None of the environmental engineering bachelor’s degree recipients at Wilkes in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 0 |
Black or African American | 0 |
Hispanic or Latino | 0 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 14 |
International Students | 5 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 2 |
Environmental Engineering students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Environmental Engineering | 21 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to environmental engineering.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Electrical Engineering | 18 |
Mechanical Engineering | 51 |
*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.
More about our data sources and methodologies.