2022 Best Value General Civil Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value General Civil Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Connecticut, there were 241 general civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 general civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $79,570 and $105,639 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general civil engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general civil engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value General Civil Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value General Civil Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Civil Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Civil Engineering in Connecticut

#1

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$41,576 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value General Civil Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut list. This large school is located in Storrs, Connecticut, and it awarded 5 doctorate’s general civil engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UCONN not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Civil Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Connecticut are $41,576, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on General Civil Engineering at UCONN

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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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