2024 Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Indiana

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in environmental engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #136 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Indiana ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 68 bachelor's degrees in environmental engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on environmental engineering students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of environmental engineering students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt environmental engineering students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized environmental engineering related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for environmental engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Environmental Engineering Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Indiana list, to help you choose the best school for you.

To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

 

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Environmental Engineering in Indiana

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering.

Top Indiana Schools for a Bachelor's in Environmental Engineering

1

Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, IN

46 Annual Graduates

$62,853 Median Starting Salary

$16,316 Median Student Debt

It is difficult to beat Purdue University - Main Campus if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering. Purdue is a very large public university located in the small city of West Lafayette.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the environmental engineering program earn about $62,853 for their early career.

More information about a bachelor’s in environmental engineering from Purdue University - Main Campus

2

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN

17 Annual Graduates

$25,000 Median Student Debt

University of Notre Dame is a great choice for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering. Located in the suburb of Notre Dame, Notre Dame is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in environmental engineering from University of Notre Dame

Best Environmental Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Environmental Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	261	70
Ohio	252	78
Illinois	241	20
Wisconsin	213	36

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Environmental Engineering Related Rankings by Major

Environmental Engineering is one of 41 different types of Engineering programs to choose from.

Environmental Engineering Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Environmental Engineering	68

Majors Similar to Environmental Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	1,054
Electrical Engineering	438
Computer Engineering	431
Civil Engineering	339
Chemical Engineering	300
Industrial Engineering	293
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	276
Biomedical Engineering	215
General Engineering	87
Agricultural Engineering	72

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alesia Goosic. More about our data sources and methodologies.