by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in Maryland” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Civil Engineering is the 41st most popular major in the country with 20,711 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Maryland, there were 282 general civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 207 general civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,642 and $26,517 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in Maryland” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general civil engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general civil engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in Maryland”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Morgan State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in Maryland list. This medium-sized school is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and it awarded 70 bachelors’s general civil engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Morgan State University General Civil Engineering Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maryland - College Park. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in Maryland. UMCP is a large public school situated in College Park, Maryland. It awarded 127 bachelors’s general civil engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% 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%.
Full University of Maryland - College Park General Civil Engineering Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johns Hopkins University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in Maryland list. Located in Baltimore, Maryland, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 10 degrees to qualified bachelors’s general civil engineering students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read full report on General Civil Engineering at Johns Hopkins University
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