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2022 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

8 Ranked Colleges
111 Degrees Awarded
$30,400 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 2,802 people earned their degree in environmental engineering, making the major the 166th most popular in the United States. 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 Great Lakes region, there were 433 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,000 and $21,495 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 111 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent environmental engineering programs, but they also 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 8 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Engineering in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Purdue University - Main Campus is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 21 masters’s environmental engineering degrees to qualified students.

Purdue also made our “Best Environmental Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue are $28,794, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Environmental Engineering at Purdue University - Main Campus

#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a large school located in Champaign, Illinois that handed out 22 masters’s environmental engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UIUC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Environmental Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UIUC are $30,083.

Read full report on Environmental Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and it awarded 15 masters’s environmental engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

U-M not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Environmental Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at U-M are $49,548, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full U-M Environmental Engineering Report

#4

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan State University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. Michigan State University is located in East Lansing, Michigan and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 6 masters’s environmental engineering degrees to qualified students.

Michigan State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Environmental Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Michigan State are $37,056, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Environmental Engineering at Michigan State University

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Michigan Technological University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Houghton, Michigan, this medium-sized public school handed out 8 diplomas to qualified masters’s environmental engineering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Michigan Tech, the school also landed the #7 spot in our “Best Environmental Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Michigan Technological University are $21,996, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Environmental Engineering at Michigan Technological University

#4 in overall quality

University of Cincinnati - Main Campus came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid ranking. UC is a large public school situated in Cincinnati, Ohio. It awarded 16 masters’s environmental engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Environmental Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Cincinnati - Main Campus are $26,644, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Environmental Engineering at UC

#7

Cleveland State University

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland State University landed the #7 spot on the 2022 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid ranking. Cleveland, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s environmental engineering degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our great lakes region master’s degree environmental engineering students with aid list, Cleveland State University has also earned the #0 rank in our “Best Environmental Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Cleveland State University are $17,622.

Read more about Environmental Engineering at Cleveland State University

#6 in overall quality

Illinois Institute of Technology came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid ranking. Illinois Tech is a medium-sized school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 10 masters’s environmental engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Illinois Tech also took the #6 spot in our “Best Environmental Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Illinois Institute of Technology are $30,695, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Environmental Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology

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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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