Degree Overview

  • Delivery Format: on-campus
  • Required Credits: 60

Program Details

Our program educational objectives are reflected in the achievements of our recent alumni. 

  1. Research and/or Practice: Alumni will successfully engage in the research and/or practice of environmental engineering within academia, industry, government, and private practice, working toward sustainable solutions in a technical specialty area. Alumni will be able to synthesize technical knowledge of engineering analysis, and design to identify, formulate and solve problems of professional interest and importance.
  2. Professional Growth: Alumni will advance their skills through research, innovation, professional growth and development activities such as research. 
  3. Service: Alumni will perform service to society and the engineering profession through membership and participation in professional societies, government, educational institutions, civic organizations, and humanitarian endeavors. 

What You Will Learn:

Graduates of Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering program will be able to:

  1. Evaluate the effectiveness of a designed experiment and the implications of the resulting data;
  2. Verify and justify the solution to a complex environmental problem, including the use of appropriate tools and techniques;
  3. Develop and evaluate new, advanced technical knowledge in a specialized area of environmental engineering; and
  4. Synthesize and explain the relevance and application of new, advanced technical knowledge in both technical and non-technical terms.

Admissions & curriculum

60 Required Credits
Course listing and prerequisites
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Environmental Engineering Salaries

$48,750

Starting Salary, NJIT Average

$63,447

Mid-Career Salary, National Average

NJIT’s graduate programs in Environmental Engineering rank in the top 75 in the U.S.

Career Prospects

Where do Environmental Engineering majors work?

Common Job Titles
  • Junior Civil Engineer
  • Sr. Transportation Engineering Manager
  • Hydrologist
Top Employers
  • Arcadis Inc.
  • Aecom Corporation
  • Environ International Corporation (EIC)
What our students are saying
  • Wenxin Ye
    I’m from Beijing, and I’ve been aware of environmental issues since I was a kid. I’m here to learn how to improve and fix these problems."
    Wenxin Ye
  • Ahmed Khaled Abdella
    I work on nanobubbles. My target is to help develop simple, cheap, eco-friendly and safe technologies for all parts of the world."
    Ahmed Khaled Abdella
  • Seif Issa
    Getting a degree from a great school like NJIT gave me the opportunity to choose the job I wanted."
    Seif Issa
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