2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Engineering Major in Illinois

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Engineering Major in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 2,759 people earned their degree in environmental engineering, making the major the 173rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, environmental engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $57,215 and had an average of $24,744 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 71 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Engineering Major in Illinois” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in environmental engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Engineering Major in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Engineering Major in Illinois”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Engineering in Illinois

1

Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

#4 overall quality in Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Loyola University Chicago. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Engineering Major in Illinois list. Loyola Chicago is a fairly large school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 8 bachelors’s environmental engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Environmental Engineering at Loyola University Chicago

2

Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

#1 overall quality in Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwestern University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Environmental Engineering Major in Illinois. Northwestern University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Evanston, Illinois. It awarded 12 bachelors’s environmental engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alesia Goosic.