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2022 Best Value General Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado

4 Ranked Colleges
305 Degrees Awarded
$20,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value General Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in Colorado

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value General Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Civil Engineering is the 36th most popular major in the country with 20,913 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Colorado, there were 477 general civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 305 general civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,261 and $25,672 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value General Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general civil engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general civil engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general civil engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value General Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Civil Engineering in Colorado

#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value General Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado list. Located in Fort Collins, Colorado, this large public school handed out 100 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s general civil engineering students in 2019-2020.

Colorado State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best General Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. The yearly cost to attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins is $18,668 for colorado bachelor’s degree general civil engineering students.

The low student loan default rate of 3.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Boulder. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value General Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado. Boulder, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general civil engineering degrees to 67 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our colorado bachelor’s degree general civil engineering students list, CU - Boulder has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best General Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. It costs about $21,680 for colorado bachelor’s degree general civil engineering students per year to attend CU - Boulder.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 3.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value General Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado list. This large school is located in Denver, Colorado, and it awarded 34 bachelors’s general civil engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

CU Anschutz also made our “Best General Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $15,358 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree General Civil Engineering students per year to attend CU Anschutz.

The low student loan default rate of 3.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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#4

Colorado School of Mines

Golden, Colorado
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado School of Mines. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value General Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado. Colorado School of Mines is a medium-sized public school situated in Golden, Colorado. It awarded 67 bachelors’s general civil engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Mines did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. The estimated yearly cost for Colorado School of Mines is $26,750 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree General Civil Engineering students.

The low student loan default rate of 1.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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