2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Civil Engineering Technology is the 425th most popular major in the country with 1,187 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 36 civil engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 civil engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in civil engineering technology/technician. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their civil engineering technology/technician program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The civil engineering tech school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region”.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree civil engineering tech students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering Technology in the Southwest Region

1

University of Houston - Downtown
Houston, Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston - Downtown landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s civil engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Civil Engineering Technology at University of Houston - Downtown

2

Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology
Okmulgee, Oklahoma

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, this small public school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s civil engineering tech students in 2020-2021.

Full OSU Institute of Technology Civil Engineering Technology Report

3

Texas Southern University
Houston, Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Southern University landed the #3 spot on the list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s civil engineering tech degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Civil Engineering Technology at TSU

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering Technology

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Sean Mack.