Confused Senior needs your Advice

[ucbalumnus]

@dad9000

At Caltech, there’s no undergraduate environmental engineering degree, but there is a graduate option. I suspect they don’t consider their undergraduate offerings lacking, but would, instead, advise a student to pursue their civil engineering major (not ABET accredited)

Caltech does not have civil engineering: https://www.admissions.caltech.edu/why-caltech/academics/majors-minors

@dad9000

At Stanford, there is an Environmental Systems Engineering undergraduate major, but it is not ABET accredited. I imagine an advisor there would not deem it unreasonable to suggest a student select that major if interested in environmental engineering, then plan on getting the necessary work experience if they wanted to later pursue a PE license.

Or it may be advisable to recommend that a student looking at a PE license major in civil engineering, but choose electives in the environmental engineering area of interest. Stanford’s civil engineering major is ABET accredited: BS Civil Engineering