2024 Best General Civil Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Colorado

If you pursue a doctor's degree in general civil engineering, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #26 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Civil Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Colorado ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 40 doctor's degrees in general civil engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Choosing a Great General Civil Engineering School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of general civil engineering for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general civil engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of general civil engineering students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general civil engineering related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general civil engineering students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank General Civil Engineering Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best General Civil Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Colorado list, to help you choose the best school for you.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study General Civil Engineering in Colorado

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in general civil engineering.

Top Colorado Schools for a Doctorate in General Civil Engineering

1

Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

8 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Colorado School of Mines if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in general civil engineering. Located in the large suburb of Golden, Mines is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a doctorate in general civil engineering from Colorado School of Mines

2

Colorado State University - Fort Collins
Fort Collins, CO

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

11 Annual Graduates

Colorado State University - Fort Collins is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in general civil engineering. Colorado State is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Fort Collins.More information about a doctorate in general civil engineering from Colorado State University - Fort Collins

3

University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

19 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in general civil engineering needs to take a look at University of Colorado Boulder. CU - Boulder is a fairly large public university located in the city of Boulder.More information about a doctorate in general civil engineering from University of Colorado Boulder

Best General Civil Engineering Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Explore all the Best General Civil Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Utah	144	6
Idaho	57	1
Wyoming	36	4

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Rankings in Majors Related to General Civil Engineering

One of 5 majors within the Civil Engineering area of study, General Civil Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Master Sgt. Roger Parsons. More about our data sources and methodologies.