The Best Environmental Engineering Universities

Stanford University

• Stanford University is home to the top-rated environmental engineering program in the United States. U.S. News & World Report ranked the full Stanford engineering department No. 2 in the nation and named it the best for environmental engineering in 2010. The civil and environmental engineering department at Stanford offers programs in atmosphere and energy, environmental engineering, and science and environmental fluid mechanics and hydrology, among others. Stanford offers the master of science and the doctorate. The environmental engineering and science (EES) program focuses on hazardous substance control and water quality, along with air and land pollution. EES divisions work together to study the movement of underground and surface water.

  Stanford University
  Terman Engineering Center
  Room 214
  Stanford, CA 94305
  650-723-4291
  stanford.edu

University of California at Berkeley

• The University of California at Berkeley's engineering school ranked third in the nation in the 2010 U.S. News & World Report ratings, and the magazine found that the environmental engineering program matched Stanford for the best in the world. The environmental engineering division also occupied the top spot in 2009. The University of California's environmental engineering department coexists with the civil engineering department, an arrangement that parallels Stanford. Programs at the university include civil systems, engineering and project management, transportation engineering, environmental engineering, geoengineering, and structural engineering, mechanics and materials. The environmental engineering program focuses on three areas of research: air quality engineering, water quality engineering, and environmental fluid mechanics and hydrology.

  University of California at Berkeley
  College of Engineering
  320 McLaughlin Hall, No. 1700
  Berkeley, CA 94720
  510-642-7405
  berkeley.edu

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the third-highest-rated environmental engineering program in the nation, according to the 2010 U.S. News & World Report rankings. Offering both the master of science and the doctorate, the department provides programs in transportation engineering, construction management, construction materials, structural engineering, information technology, environmental engineering and science, environmental hydrology and hydraulic engineering, and geotechnical engineering. The EES program covers research interests such as water disinfection, water reuse, microbial genomics, antibiotic resistance and treatment, aquatic ecology, sustainable urban development, and environmentally conscious design and manufacturing.

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  1308 W. Green St.
  Urbana, IL 61801
  217-333-2151
  illinois.edu