环境工程（Environmental Engineering）为应用科学与工程之方法来改善环境（包括空气、水、土地资源），进而为人类之居住以及其他生物体提供对健康有益的水、空气以及土壤，亦包括污染场址之复育。我们可经由教育大众、保护环境、订立规定以及应用良好工程实作(Good Engineering Practice)来减轻与控制对环境的负面影响。
环境科学与保护技术员美国各州就业情况：
2015USNews美国大学研究生环境与环境卫生工程专业排名
环境工程与环境科学的区别
环境工程属于工科，除了学习了解环境学相关的理论知识外，还要学习了解工程类的理论，其重点在现有成熟的理论的应用实践；环境科学属于理科，主要偏向于专业理论的研究，重点是理论的研究与发展。| 开设学位 | BS、M.S.、Ph.D. |
| 典型职业及薪水 | 环境工程师：$83,340 |
| 签证敏感度 | 无 |
| 高中课程准备 | 理科 |
| 所属专业领域 | 工科 |
| 相关排名 | 2015USNEWS环境工程排名 |
课程列表
| 健康及风险管理 | Health Effects and Risk Management |
| 环境毒理学 | Environmental Toxicology |
| 生物统计学 | Biostatistics |
| 污染治理 | Pollution Prevention |
| 污水处理设计 | Water and Wastewater Plant Design |
| 有害物质管理 | Hazardous Materials Management |
| 种群生物学 | Biology of Populations |
| 寄生虫 | Parasites |
| 水污染 | Water Contaminants |
| 环境生物学 | Environmental Biology |
| 流体力学 | Fluid Mechanics |
| 水文学 | Hydrology |
| 空气污染监控 | Air Pollution Control |
| 演算环境工程进程 | Calculus Environmental Engineering Processes |
就业状况
可从事职业：化学工程师、生态学家、环境科学家、农民环境科学与保护技术员美国各州就业情况：
| 州名 | 就业人数 | 薪水/h | 薪水/年 |
| 加州 | 3060 | $24.54 | $51,040 |
| 德克萨斯州 | 2510 | $19.19 | $39,920 |
| 佛罗里达州 | 1900 | $17.63 | $36,670 |
| 纽约 | 1810 | $21.54 | $44,800 |
| 宾夕法尼亚州 | 1330 | $20.24 | $42,110 |
| 阿拉斯加州 | 230 | $20.32 | $42,270 |
| 西弗吉尼亚州 | 420 | $17.06 | $35,490 |
| 怀俄明州 | 160 | $20.79 | $43,250 |
| 哥伦比亚特区 | 320 | $16.81 | $34,960 |
| 特拉华州 | 180 | $16.37 | $34,040 |
| 伊利诺伊州 | 870 | $29.05 | $60,420 |
| 内华达州 | 370 | $27.65 | $57,510 |
| 马里兰州 | 600 | $26.70 | $55,530 |
| 华盛顿 | 1160 | $26.06 | $54,210 |
| 罗德岛 | 40 | $25.65 | $53,360 |
2015USNews美国大学研究生环境与环境卫生工程专业排名
| 排名 | 院校 | 学费 | 工程专业研究生注册总人数 |
| #1 | Stanford University Stanford, CA |
$45,480 per year (full-time) | 3,517 |
| #1 | University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA |
$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,936 |
| #3 | University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL |
$16,754 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,246 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,154 |
| #4 | Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA |
$11,324 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,330 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 4,576 |
| #4 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI |
$22,322 per year (in-state, full-time); $41,998 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,178 |
| #4 | University of Texas-Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX |
$9,564 per year (in-state, full-time); $17,506 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,397 |
| #7 | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA |
$40,000 per year (full-time) | 3,157 |
| #8 | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA |
$39,990 per year (full-time) | 569 |
| #8 | Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) Baltimore, MD |
$45,470 per year (full-time) | 3,296 |
| #8 | Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA |
$11,184 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,146 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,193 |
| #11 | Cornell University Ithaca, NY |
$29,530 per year (full-time) | 1,812 |
| #11 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA |
$43,210 per year (full-time) | 3,174 |
| #11 | University of California-Davis Davis, CA |
$13,109 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,211 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,130 |
| #14 | Duke University (Pratt) Durham, NC |
$47,100 per year (full-time) | 981 |
| #14 | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC |
$9,209 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,663 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 117 |
| #16 | Purdue University-West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN |
$10,332 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,333 |
| #16 | University of Washington Seattle, WA |
$14,904 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,594 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,139 |
| #16 | University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI |
$11,858 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,184 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,940 |
| #19 | Rice University (Brown) Houston, TX |
$38,260 per year (full-time) | 760 |
| #19 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN |
$14,708 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,990 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,928 |
| #21 | Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston, IL |
$45,120 per year (full-time) | 1,799 |
| #21 | University of Colorado-Boulder Boulder, CO |
$12,960 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,142 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,623 |
| #21 | University of Iowa Iowa City, IA |
$8,106 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,690 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 412 |
| #21 | Yale University New Haven, CT |
$36,500 per year (full-time) | 196 |
| #25 | Pennsylvania State University-University Park University Park, PA |
$19,304 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,416 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,719 |
| #25 | Princeton University Princeton, NJ |
$40,170 per year (full-time) | 576 |
| #27 | Arizona State University (Fulton) Tempe, AZ |
$10,300 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,286 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,136 |
| #27 | University of Arizona Tucson, AZ |
$10,508 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,380 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,041 |
| #27 | University of Florida Gainesville, FL |
$12,642 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,035 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,739 |
| #30 | North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC |
$7,173 per year (in-state, full-time); $19,511 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,929 |
| #30 | Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO |
$44,100 per year (full-time) | 879 |
| #32 | Clarkson University Potsdam, NY |
$1,324 per credit (full-time) | 204 |
| #32 | Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO |
$14,400 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,330 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,269 |
| #32 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA |
$38,888 per year (full-time) | 449 |
| #32 | Michigan State University East Lansing, MI |
$621 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,220per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 897 |
| #32 | Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI |
$14,202 per year (in-state, full-time); $14,202 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 907 |
| #32 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY |
$45,100 per year (full-time) | 783 |
| #32 | University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH |
$12,522 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,036 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 870 |
| #32 | University of Maryland-College Park (Clark) College Park, MD |
$11,460 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,720 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,150 |
| #40 | Clemson University Clemson, SC |
$9,392 per year (in-state, full-time); $19,536 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,427 |
| #40 | Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY |
$39,360 per year (full-time) | 2,827 |
| #40 | Iowa State University Ames, IA |
$9,046 per year (in-state, full-time); $21,304 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,161 |
| #40 | University of California-Irvine (Samueli) Irvine, CA |
$13,812 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,914 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,325 |
| #40 | University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA |
$2,640 per year (in-state, full-time); $9,937 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 882 |
| #40 | University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA |
$29,448 per year (full-time) | 4,857 |
| #46 | Oregon State University Corvallis, OR |
$13,644 per year (in-state, full-time); $21,177 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 912 |
| #46 | Tufts University Medford, MA |
$27,472 per year (full-time) | 592 |
| #46 | University at Buffalo-SUNY Buffalo, NY |
$9,870 per year (in-state, full-time); $18,350 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,801 |
| #46 | University of Delaware Newark, DE |
$1,578 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,578per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 887 |
| #50 | Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO |
$10,450 per year (in-state, full-time); $23,240 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 726 |
| #50 | Oregon Health and Science University Portland, OR |
$27,068 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,068 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 71 |
| #50 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ |
$15,552 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,704 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,162 |
| #50 | University of California-Riverside (Bourns) Riverside, CA |
$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,332 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 594 |
| #50 | Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN |
$1,747 per credit (full-time) | 495 |
| #55 | Drexel University Philadelphia, PA |
$29,295 per year (full-time) | 1,146 |
| #55 | Missouri University of Science & Technology Rolla, MO |
$6,661 per year (in-state, full-time); $17,199 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,196 |
| #55 | Ohio State University Columbus, OH |
$11,928 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,592 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,680 |
| #55 | University of Pittsburgh (Swanson) Pittsburgh, PA |
$22,916 per year (in-state, full-time); $37,528 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,067 |
| #59 | Lehigh University (Rossin) Bethlehem, PA |
$1,300 per credit (full-time) | 826 |
| #59 | Northeastern University Boston, MA |
$1,315 per credit (full-time) | 2,690 |
| #59 | University of Connecticut Storrs, CT |
$11,456 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,740 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 873 |
| #59 | University of Nevada-Reno Reno, NV |
$364 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,163 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 255 |
| #59 | University of South Florida Tampa, FL |
$10,428 per year (in-state, full-time); $21,126 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 865 |
| #64 | University of Houston (Cullen) Houston, TX |
$483 per credit (in-state, full-time); $837 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,208 |
| #64 | University of Kansas Lawrence, KS |
$346 per credit (in-state, full-time); $810 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 637 |
| #64 | University of Oklahoma Norman, OK |
$175 per credit (in-state, full-time); $675 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 555 |
| #64 | University of Vermont Burlington, VT |
$572 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,444 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 123 |
| #68 | Illinois Institute of Technology (Armour) Chicago, IL |
$1,204 per credit (full-time) | 1,587 |
| #68 | New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ |
$17,384 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,404 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,356 |
| #68 | Texas A&M University-Kingsville (Dotterweich) Kingsville, TX |
$3,228 per year (in-state, full-time); $9,600 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 756 |
| #68 | University of Central Florida Orlando, FL |
$357 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,182 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,264 |
| #68 | University of Missouri Columbia, MO |
$6,452 per year (in-state, full-time); $15,114 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 651 |
| #68 | University of South Carolina Columbia, SC |
$12,378 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,698 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 534 |
| #74 | Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge Baton Rouge, LA |
$6,631 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,706 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 667 |
| #74 | University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT |
$6,242 per year (in-state, full-time); $17,772 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,180 |
| #76 | Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA |
N/A | N/A |
| #76 | Stevens Institute of Technology (Schaefer) Hoboken, NJ |
$30,200 per year (full-time) | 1,861 |