2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Environmental Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 the Rocky Mountains region, there were 170 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,275 and $27,223 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $79,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Environmental Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in environmental engineering.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Environmental Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region doctor’s degree environmental engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado

#1 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Environmental Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado School of Mines landed the #1 spot on the list. Mines is a public institution located in Golden, Colorado. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%.

Read full report on Environmental Engineering at Colorado School of Mines

2

University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado

#2 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado Boulder. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Environmental Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Boulder, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s environmental engineering degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Environmental Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Engineering

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.