2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Civil Engineering Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 131 people earned their degree in civil engineering, making the major the 908th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Civil Engineering Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in civil engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful civil engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Civil Engineering Major for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 5 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering

1

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

Top 15% overall quality in United States

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 Most Well Attended Civil Engineering Major for a Bachelor’s. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach is located in Daytona Beach, Florida and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 26 bachelors’s civil engineering degrees to qualified students.

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 Daytona Beach Civil Engineering Report

2

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

#18 overall quality in United States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern California. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Civil Engineering Major for a Bachelor’s. 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 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at USC

3

William Penn University
Oskaloosa, Iowa

Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended Civil Engineering Major for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, William Penn University landed the #3 spot on the list. William Penn University is a small school located in Oskaloosa, Iowa that handed out 0 bachelors’s civil engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Civil Engineering at William Penn University

3

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Civil Engineering Major for a Bachelor’s. This large school is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s civil engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Civil Engineering at University of New Mexico - Main Campus

3

Western New England University
Springfield, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western New England University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Civil Engineering Major for a Bachelor’s list. Springfield, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s civil engineering degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Civil Engineering at Western New England

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Master Sgt. Roger Parsons.