Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Degree

Consider a degree in Environmental Engineering at Clemson. You can be part of the solution. Our complex world faces many challenges, including contaminated water supplies, hazardous wastes, increasing populations and limited resources. We need a highly trained workforce ready to tackle our environmental problems and design a healthier and more sustainable society. As an environmental engineer, you can help solve many of the environmental problems faced by society the principles of biology, chemistry, and the earth sciences. An undergraduate degree in environmental engineering opens the door to a variety of rewarding career options. Environmental engineers:

• Protect water quality by designing water and wastewater treatment systems
• Look after public safety by managing solid, hazardous and radioactive wastes
• Improve air quality by devising solutions to air pollution
• Reduce human health risks by tracking contaminants as they move through the environment
• Clean up toxic waste spills and restore historically contaminated sites
• Design a more sustainable future by understanding our use of resources

This technical and challenging program is led by world-class faculty dedicated to providing the best possible educational experience.  Clemson University’s new undergraduate degree in Environmental Engineering is the only degree program of its type in South Carolina.

Local, national, and international job opportunities in environmental engineering abound. Careers can be found with the federal and state governments, water utilities, engineering consulting firms, and industry. Environmental Engineering has been continuously reported as one of the best jobs with great pay and growth prospects in many recent news articles: Money Magazine, IEEE-USA Today's Engineer, The Consumerist, US Department of Labor, and Csemag.com.  The US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment for environmental engineers will grow faster than average for 2006 through 2016 [1]. As of 2008, average salary for environmental engineers was $77,970. By receiving a degree in Environmental Engineering at Clemson, you will acquire the skills necessary to join this rapidly growing field and tackle some of the major challenges facing society.