Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Again Ranked #1 in Environmental Health Sciences by Peers in U.S. News & World Report

Department of Environmental Health and Engineering moves up 10 spots to No. 15 for Environmental Engineering graduate programs.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has again been ranked #1 in the nation in Environmental Health Sciences, as measured by U.S. News & World Report. The ranking represents the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering’s leadership in programs and courses in the discipline of environmental health.

The Department was also ranked No. 15 in the nation for its graduate environmental engineering programs. This marks a 10-spot leap over last year’s ranking. The U.S. News rankings for public health and engineering specialties are based on reputation as measured by peer evaluations.

The Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Whiting School of Engineering were ranked No. 1 and No. 13, respectively. School rankings are based on a detailed assessment process that includes a comprehensive set of factors, including a school’s research expenditures, faculty productivity, admissions selectivity, and feedback from professional peers and employers who hire the school’s graduates.

""Our affiliation with two leading schools enables us to create innovative solutions for critical environmental challenges at the nexus of public health and engineering," says Marsha Wills-Karp, PhD, Department Chair and Anna M. Baetjer Professor in Environmental Health.

Here are a few department highlights from the past year:

Researchers with the Center for a Livable Future evaluated the environmental impact of the 10 most-consumed seafood products in the United States, giving consumers the ability to make more informed choices.
Continuing their work studying the impact of industry on fence line communities using a state-of-the-art mobile air quality monitoring system, an EHE team led by Peter DeCarlo found that fenceline health risks are grossly underestimated.
Closer to home, a team of researchers with CHARMED confirmed that the black dust that has coated homes and businesses for decades in the South Baltimore community of Curtis Bay contains toxic coal dust, something CSX has consistently denied.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Again Ranked #1 by Peers in U.S. News & World Report

Whiting School of Engineering Ranked #13 by Peers in U.S. News & World Report