2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest 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 Southwest region, there were 8 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 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.

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

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

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

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

#1

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$33,399 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region. University of Arizona is a large school located in Tucson, Arizona that handed out 2 masters’s civil engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Arizona did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Arizona are $33,399.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at University of Arizona

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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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