2022 Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across the Southwest region, there were 8 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 $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

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

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

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

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

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

#1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Albuquerque, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$14,446 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. UNM is a large school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico that handed out 1 bachelors’s civil engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree civil engineering students list, UNM has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $14,446 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Civil Engineering students per year to attend UNM.

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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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