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Energy & Environmental Engineering
Renewables, batteries, nuclear, grids and clean water: engineering the energy transition.
Who it suits
RIC
- Builder: hands-on, tools, machines, outdoors
- Thinker: analysing, researching, figuring out why
- Organiser: structure, data, precision
Students here tend to be a bit more curious than average.
Builds on
Physics ●●●Mathematics ●●Chemistry ●●
Typically offers
High salary · Job security · Working with technology · Impact on society or the planet
Where it leads
Energy engineer · Renewables project engineer · Environmental engineer · Nuclear engineer
US median earnings, one year after a bachelor’s
$57,269
College Scorecard, US Department of Education
1,201 programmes tracked
🇩🇪 Germany 440🇫🇷 France 385🇺🇸 United States 158🇫🇮 Finland 121🇦🇹 Austria 40🇦🇺 Australia 34🇨🇭 Switzerland 23
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