<p>My friend is looking for some colleges that offer a good education in engineering, specifically environmental engineering. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.</p>
<p>If it matters, when I read about environmental engineering projects in sci/tech magazines, the research uni that seems to be listed the most is MIT.</p>
<p>UConn and Colorado-Boulder both have majors for this. I’m not sure about any others, but there surely are some out there. Guess it depends on your gpa/scores too. Good Luck!!!</p>
<p>Dartmouth has a program:
[Energy</a> Technologies: BBCEE](<a href=“http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/research/energy-technologies/BBCEE.html]Energy”>http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/research/energy-technologies/BBCEE.html)</p>
<p>Env engineering employer here. There are many great Env Engineering programs out there. Some undergrad programs are stand-alone env engineering (the minority), and some are tied to other traditional engineering sub-disciplines like Civil, Ag/Bioresources, and Chemical. Very generally speaking, if the env engineering program is tied to another discipline, the emphases will be a bit different.</p>
<p>A few great programs that come to mind are (in no particular order, in addition to U Conn & Colorado Boulder):
Stanford
Cornell (env option tied to either bio or civil)
Penn State
Johns Hopkins
UIUC
MIT
UT Austin
Georgia Tech
U Washington
Carnegie Mellon
Northwestern
UC Berkeley
Rice
U Michigan</p>
<p>@Papa Chicken:</p>
<p>I want to study environmental engineering at Rice, but they only offer a BA in this area. Will that be looked down upon by employers like yourself or by grad schools?</p>
<p>slik- short answer is ‘it depends.’</p>
<p>Maybe for employers. I just checked out Rice’s programs…interesting approach I might say…but they are VERY well respected in this area. The BA is in either civil or environmental engineerings SCIENCES (not straight up ‘engineering’). They offer a BS in Civil that is ABET accredited. This ABET accreditation means alot to employers. It means that graduates of a program can sit for their Profession Engineer (PE) exam in 4 or 5 years after graduating. Having a PE is an important credential for an individual and their employer to demonstrate ability to design and otherwise perform in the profession. So, if you think you’ll go into the workforce straight after undergrad, I’d go for the BS in Civil, and specialize in environmental and/or water resources (check out these possibilities on their webpage, i.e., you’d be a ‘civil/environmental engineer’). Conversely, if you think you’ll definitely be going back for a research-oriented env engineering degree right after your undergrad, some grad schools might like the BA in env eng sciences better…BUT, you would certainly be OK with grad schools too if you got the BS, as long as you had plenty of sciency/theory courses. [Some engineering science programs have fewer requirements than ABET accredited programs.] Safe bet is to do the BS in my book. You probably won’t have to decide right away if admitted, so I would seek the department’s advice once there. Bottom line, you are covered if you end up going to Rice. Goodluck!</p>
<p>thanks for all the suggestions so far…</p>