2022 Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Civil Engineering is the 928th most popular major in the country with 116 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 48 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,083 and $22,209 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great civil engineering programs and 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 civil engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree civil engineering students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in the Far Western US Region

#1

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California

#1 in overall quality

$29,528 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern California landed the #1 spot on the list. Los Angeles, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s civil engineering degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our far western us region bachelor’s degree civil engineering students list, USC has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Southern California is $29,528 for far western us region bachelor’s degree civil engineering students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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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