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2026 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools in Maryland

1 Colleges in the United States
$13,426 Avg Student Debt
$87,555 Avg Median Earnings (10yr)
2026 Best Value Environmental Engineering Badge [Environmental Engineering](/majors/engineering/environmental-engineering/) degree programs vary widely in price and payoff across the country. A high-value program keeps cost low while graduates go on to earn well.

For its 2026 best-value ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools to find the best return on investment for environmental engineering students.

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2026 Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools in Maryland

If you want to know which schools deliver the best value for the environmental engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.

Best Value Environmental Engineering Schools

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For return on investment in environmental engineering, no school beat Johns Hopkins University this year. Johns Hopkins University is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Baltimore. Students from in state pay about $64,730 in tuition and fees. Students borrow a median of $13,426 to complete the environmental engineering program here. Early-career environmental engineering graduates make about $86,557. Weighed against typical debt, the earnings make a compelling case for value. Johns Hopkins University admits about 6% of applicants.

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Notes and References

The ranking above is published by College Factual (MF_RANKING_2025), 2026 edition. The methodology weighs the cost of a degree against the earnings graduates go on to achieve, drawn primarily from the U.S. Department of Education (IPEDS and College Scorecard).

Ranking method: College Major Best Value · 2 schools evaluated.

*Averages shown above reflect the top 1 ranked schools only.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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