2023 Most Well Attended Environmental Engineering Major in New Jersey for a Master’s

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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 New Jersey, there were 37 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 environmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,237 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Environmental Engineering Major in New Jersey for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Environmental Engineering Major in New Jersey for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for new jersey master’s degree environmental engineering students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Environmental Engineering in New Jersey

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Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, New Jersey

#2 overall quality in New Jersey

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Environmental Engineering Major in New Jersey for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Stevens Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Hoboken, New Jersey is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s environmental engineering degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

Read more about Environmental Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology

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New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, New Jersey

#4 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Jersey Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Environmental Engineering Major in New Jersey for a Master’s list. New Jersey Institute of Technology is located in Newark, New Jersey and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 masters’s environmental engineering degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full New Jersey Institute of Technology Environmental Engineering Report

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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.