Program overview
Environmental Engineering is an applied major under the engineering discipline, focusing on using scientific and engineering principles to prevent, control, and remediate environmental pollution. You will study courses such as water treatment, air pollution control, solid waste treatment and resource recovery, environmental monitoring, and environmental impact assessment. The undergraduate level emphasizes fundamentals, while the graduate level delves deeper into topics like advanced oxidation processes, membrane separation technology, environmental microbiology, and environmental systems analysis. Chinese universities have unique strengths in this field—for example, Tsinghua, Tongji, and Harbin Institute of Technology are strong in water treatment, while Peking University and Beijing Normal University excel in environmental policy and ecological restoration. This major suits students who are comfortable with chemistry, biology, and physics, enjoy hands-on lab work, and care about environmental issues. If you want a major that directly improves people's quality of life, this direction is a great fit.