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2022 Best Vallue Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making Over $110k

4 Ranked Colleges
48 Degrees Awarded
$20,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Vallue Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in the Plains States Region For Those Making Over $110k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Vallue Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Environmental Engineering is the 166th most popular major in the country with 2,802 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, environmental engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $52,600 and had an average of $23,573 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 76 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,400 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 48 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Vallue Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making Over $110k” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in environmental engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great environmental engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the environmental engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Vallue Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Engineering (Income Over $110k) in the Plains States Region

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Missouri University of Science and Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Best Vallue Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making Over $110k. Rolla, Missouri is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s environmental engineering degrees to 21 students in 2019-2020.

Missouri University of Science and Technology not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Missouri University of Science and Technology is $14,262 for plains states region bachelor’s degree environmental engineering students whose families make more than $110k.

The low student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Environmental Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology

#2

University of North Dakota

Grand Forks, North Dakota
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Vallue Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Dakota landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s environmental engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UND did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $15,738 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Engineering students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend UND.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Environmental Engineering at UND

#3

University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Iowa. The school came in at #3 for the Best Vallue Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making Over $110k. Located in Iowa City, Iowa, this large public school awarded 9 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s environmental engineering students in 2019-2020.

Iowa also made our “Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #3. The yearly cost to attend University of Iowa is $19,145 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Engineering students whose families make more than $110k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Iowa Environmental Engineering Report

#4

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Minneapolis, Minnesota
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Vallue Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the #4 spot on the list. This large school is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s environmental engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UMN Twin Cities did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $17,740 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Engineering students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Environmental Engineering at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

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Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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