The main focus area for this major is General Civil Engineering. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Civil Engineering is a major offered under the engineering program of study at San Diego State University. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in civil eng, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, whether or not the degree is offered online, and more.
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In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. The bachelor's program at SDSU was ranked #65 on College Factual's Best Schools for civil eng list. It is also ranked #13 in California.
Here are some of the other rankings for SDSU.
The average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $5,742 | $17,622 |
Fees | $1,978 | $1,978 |
Books and Supplies | $1,079 | $1,079 |
On Campus Room and Board | $18,531 | $18,531 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $2,910 | $2,910 |
Learn more about SDSU tuition and fees.
You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. Civil Eng students who received their bachelor’s degree at SDSU took out an average of $17,999 in student loans. That is 23% lower than the national average of $23,346.
civil eng who receive their bachelor’s degree from SDSU make an average of $64,553 a year during the early days of their career. That is 11% higher than the national average of $57,979.
Online degrees for the SDSU civil eng bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the SDSU Online Learning page.
Women made up around 33.5% of the civil eng students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 27.3%.
Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 45.5% of the civil eng bachelor’s degrees at SDSU in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 31%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 26 |
Black or African American | 4 |
Hispanic or Latino | 45 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 2 |
White | 47 |
International Students | 51 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 16 |
Civil Engineering students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Civil Engineering | 191 |
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Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering | 61 |
Biomedical Engineering | 1 |
Computer Engineering | 81 |
Electrical Engineering | 132 |
Environmental Engineering | 38 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.