2023 Schools Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Major in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Civil Engineering is the 908th most popular major in the country with 131 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 45 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in civil engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their civil engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Civil Engineering in the Southeast Region

1

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach, Florida

$61,176 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,374 Average Student Debt

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 Schools Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Major in the Southeast Region. Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach is a medium-sized school located in Daytona Beach, Florida that handed out 32 ’s civil engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach Civil Engineering Report

2

Holmes Community College
Goodman, Mississippi

$28,772 Average Early-Career Earnings

$12,352 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Holmes Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Goodman, Mississippi, and it awarded 13 ’s civil engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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