2023 Most Well Attended Environmental Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for an Associate

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 “Most Well Attended Environmental Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Environmental Engineering is the 173rd most popular major in the country with 2,759 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 associate degree level specifically, there were 0 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,822 and $20,997 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Environmental Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for an Associate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in environmental engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful environmental engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Environmental Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for an Associate

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

Top 2 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Environmental Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

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Utah State University
Logan, Utah

#13 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Utah State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Environmental Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for an Associate list. Logan, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s environmental engineering degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Environmental Engineering at Utah State University

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Central Wyoming College
Riverton, Wyoming

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Environmental Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Wyoming College landed the #1 spot on the list. CWC is a small school located in Riverton, Wyoming that handed out 3 associates’s environmental engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Environmental Engineering at Central Wyoming College

• Most Popular Associate 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.