Job Prospects for ERE graduates are excellent. Current Median Salaries at around $96,000 per year. The largest category of employment is engineering consulting, followed by state regulatory agencies and federal agencies. Many ERE graduates own their own consulting firms or are local, regional and even national managers of firms and agencies.

ERE is one of the oldest and Largest undergraduate Environmental Engineering programs in the United States, according to the American Society for Engineering Education. Our alumni work all over the world.

 One of the largest ABET accredited environmental engineering programs, graduating between 5-10% of the nation's graduates each year. Graduates from accredited programs are able to continue their professional development to become licensed professional engineers (PEs).

ERE students are awarded top honors in international competitions in Interdisciplinary Math Modeling and the American Society of Civil Engineers Mid Pacific Water Treatment Competition.

ERE has direct faculty and student links to the world-famous Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary, Schatz Energy Research Center, and the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology.

ERE courses and laboratory sections required for the major are taught by ERE faculty members with environmental engineering backgrounds.

ERE Professor Margaret Lang teaches ERE student (Katy Gurin) how to survey a river cross section.

ERE has one of the highest proportions of women engineering faculty in the country with 6 of 9 of our tenure track faculty being women. Our proportion of women students is 35%.

Nearly a third of ERE graduates go on to complete advanced degrees. Graduates have attended: Stanford University, UC Davis, UCLA, Cornell University, University of Washington, Utah State University, and others. Many ERE graduates have earned Ph.D. degrees and are now university professors.

ERE students are active in many different clubs: Environmental Resources Engineering Student Association (ERESA), Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), Renewable Energy Student Union (RESU) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Humboldt and the ERE department are known for a cooperative spirit between faculty and students. ERE students study together, and many courses have team projects.