Environmental Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #136 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Wisconsin to determine which ones were the best for environmental engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 34 bachelor's degrees in environmental engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 complete 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 picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Environmental Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Wisconsin ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don't forget it.
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University of Wisconsin - Platteville is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering. UW - Platteville is a medium-sized public university located in the distant town of Platteville.
After graduation, environmental engineering bachelor's recipients usually earn an average of $69,490 in the first five years of their career.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
