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2022 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid

6 Ranked Colleges
111 Degrees Awarded
$25,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

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 New England region, there were 187 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,000 and $25,667 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 111 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 6 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the environmental engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Engineering in the New England Region (With Aid)

#1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Massachusetts Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s environmental engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

MIT not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Massachusetts Institute of Technology is $16,636 for new england region bachelor’s degree environmental engineering students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. With a freshman retention rate of 98%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full MIT Environmental Engineering Report

#2

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid list. University of Connecticut is a large school located in Storrs, Connecticut that handed out 30 bachelors’s environmental engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UCONN also took the #3 spot in our “Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Connecticut is $22,012 for new england region bachelor’s degree environmental engineering students with aid.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Environmental Engineering at UCONN

#3

University of Vermont

Burlington, Vermont

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Vermont landed the #3 spot on the list. UVM is a fairly large school located in Burlington, Vermont that handed out 22 bachelors’s environmental engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UVM also made our “Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #6. The estimated yearly cost for University of Vermont is $18,982 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Engineering students with aid.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Environmental Engineering at University of Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid list. This fairly large school is located in Durham, New Hampshire, and it awarded 35 bachelors’s environmental engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UNH also made our “Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #5. The estimated yearly cost for UNH is $24,067 for new england region bachelor’s degree environmental engineering students with aid.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Environmental Engineering at University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

#5

Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tufts University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Medford, Massachusetts, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s environmental engineering students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our new england region bachelor’s degree environmental engineering students with aid list, Tufts has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Tufts is $30,744 for new england region bachelor’s degree environmental engineering students with aid.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about Environmental Engineering at Tufts University

#6

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester Polytechnic Institute ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid list. This medium-sized school is located in Worcester, Massachusetts, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s environmental engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at WPI, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend WPI is $39,756 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Engineering students with aid.

With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Environmental Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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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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