2024 Best General Civil Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
33
Colleges in the Southeast Region
819
Master's Degrees
If you pursue a master's degree in
general civil engineering, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #40 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 33 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Civil Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 819 master's degrees in general civil engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great General Civil Engineering School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of general civil engineering for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality general civil engineering program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general civil engineering students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other general civil engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- 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 master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Civil Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.