2022 Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast 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 Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 116 people earned their degree in civil engineering, making the major the 928th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 47 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in the Southeast Region

#1

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach

Daytona Beach, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$34,296 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Daytona Beach, Florida. It awarded 18 bachelors’s civil engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree civil engineering students list, Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach is $34,296 for southeast region bachelor’s degree civil engineering students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Civil Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach

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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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