Environmental Science

Climate science, water resources, ecology, conservation policy and energy transition programs.

Ranked campuses teaching environmental science

Universities teaching Environmental Science
#	Institution	City	Control	Students	Admitted	Tuition	Score
1	MIT	Cambridge, MA	private	4,700	4%	$59,500	97
2	Stanford	Stanford, CA	private	17,500	3.9%	$62,000	96
3	Princeton	Princeton, NJ	private	8,500	4.6%	$59,000	95
4	Penn	Philadelphia, PA	private	28,000	5.4%	$61,500	93
5	Cornell	Ithaca, NY	private	25,500	8%	$62,000	92
6	Caltech	Pasadena, CA	private	2,300	3.1%	$61,000	89
7	Duke	Durham, NC	private	17,500	5.1%	$62,000	88
8	UC Berkeley	Berkeley, CA	public	45,000	11%	$14,800 / $36,000	85
9	UCLA	Los Angeles, CA	public	46,500	9%	$13,500 / $35,500	84
10	Harvey Mudd	Claremont, CA	private	800	—	$60,000	84
11	Michigan	Ann Arbor, MI	public	51,000	18%	$17,000 / $39,000	83
12	WashU	St. Louis, MO	private	15,500	12%	$62,000	81

Doctoral programs in this field

26 indexed campuses award research doctorates here. Funding normally arrives through assistantships tied to faculty grants.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA · private · doctorate

Small, intensely technical and heavily funded: engineering, computing and the physical sciences with one of the largest research budgets per student in the country.

Score 974.7k students4% admitted$60k tuition

computer data scienceengineeringbusinessnatural sciences

Stanford University

Stanford, CA · private · doctorate

Silicon Valley parent institution, combining a large research portfolio with an entrepreneurship culture that feeds straight into the Bay Area economy.

Score 9618k students4% admitted$62k tuition

computer data scienceengineeringbusinesshealth medicine

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ · private · doctorate

A small Ivy with a heavy mathematics, physics and public-policy core. Doctoral tuition is funded for most PhD candidates, which makes Princeton the top answer to a doctorate in New Jersey.

Score 958.5k students5% admitted$59k tuition

computer data scienceengineeringbusinesslaw public policy

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA · private · doctorate

Wharton anchors a research university that mixes business, medicine, law and engineering on one walkable West Philadelphia campus.

Score 9328k students5% admitted$62k tuition

computer data scienceengineeringbusinesshealth medicine

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY · private · doctorate

A hybrid Ivy: privately governed, with contract colleges for New York residents. Strong in engineering, hospitality, agriculture and computing.

Score 9226k students8% admitted$62k tuition

computer data scienceengineeringbusinesshealth medicine

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA · private · doctorate

A tiny elite institute running physics, astronomy and engineering, with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as its de facto research campus.

Score 892.3k students3% admitted$61k tuition

computer data scienceengineeringnatural sciencesenvironmental science

Duke University

Durham, NC · private · doctorate

Research powerhouse of the Research Triangle, pairing a top medical centre with strong public policy, business and computer science.

Score 8818k students5% admitted$62k tuition

computer data scienceengineeringbusinesshealth medicine

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA · public · doctorate

The flagship of the California system: enormous research output across engineering, computing, chemistry and the social sciences.

Score 8545k students11% admitted$15k in-state

computer data scienceengineeringbusinesshealth medicine

Enrolment, tuition and acceptance figures are rounded planning values compiled in 2025/26 for orientation. Verify exact numbers with each university's official fact sheet before you apply.