2024 Best Civil Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Civil Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #40 most popular master's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

College Factual looked at 25 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Civil Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 757 master's degrees in civil engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Civil Engineering School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of civil engineering for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on civil engineering students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of civil engineering students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt civil engineering students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized civil engineering related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for civil engineering students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Civil Engineering Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Civil Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Civil Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in civil engineering.

10 Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Master's in Civil Eng

1

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY

111 Annual Graduates

$81,566 Median Starting Salary

Columbia University in the City of New York is a great decision for individuals pursuing a master's degree in civil engineering. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.

Civil Engineering master's degree recipients from Columbia University in the City of New York get an earnings boost of about $7,677 above the average earnings of civil engineering graduates.

More information about a master’s in civil engineering from Columbia University in the City of New York

2

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

88 Annual Graduates

$67,478 Median Starting Salary

Carnegie Mellon University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in civil engineering. Located in the large city of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.

After graduation, civil eng master's recipients usually earn about $67,478 in their early careers.

More information about a master’s in civil engineering from Carnegie Mellon University

3

Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

13 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Princeton University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in civil engineering. Princeton is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Princeton.More information about a master’s in civil engineering from Princeton University

4

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

27 Annual Graduates

Cornell University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in civil engineering. Cornell is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Ithaca.More information about a master’s in civil engineering from Cornell University

5

New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ

92 Annual Graduates

$78,762 Median Starting Salary

Located in the large city of Newark, NJIT is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Those civil engineering students who get their master's degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology make $4,873 more than the standard civil eng student.

More information about a master’s in civil engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology

6

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

25 Annual Graduates

Johns Hopkins is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Baltimore.More information about a master’s in civil engineering from Johns Hopkins University

7

New York University
New York, NY

35 Annual Graduates

$76,116 Median Starting Salary

Located in the city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Civil Engineering master's degree recipients from New York University get an earnings boost of around $2,227 above the average income of civil engineering majors.

More information about a master’s in civil engineering from New York University

8

Villanova University
Villanova, PA

37 Annual Graduates

$79,452 Median Starting Salary

Located in the suburb of Villanova, Villanova is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.

Master's recipients from the civil engineering major at Villanova University earn $5,563 above the average college grad in this field when they enter the workforce.

More information about a master’s in civil engineering from Villanova University

9

Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ

26 Annual Graduates

$76,673 Median Starting Salary

Stevens is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Hoboken.

Master's recipients from the civil engineering program at Stevens Institute of Technology make $2,784 more than the typical college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.

More information about a master’s in civil engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology

10

University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus
Pittsburgh, PA

13 Annual Graduates

Located in the large city of Pittsburgh, Pitt is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in civil engineering from University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus

Best Civil Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best civil engineering schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	261	314
Pennsylvania	248	184
Maryland	193	58
New Jersey	188	158
District of Columbia	154	19
Delaware	109	24

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Rankings in Majors Related to Civil Eng

Civil Engineering is one of 41 different types of Engineering programs to choose from.

Civil Eng Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Civil Engineering	686
Water Resources Engineering	30
Trasportation Engineering	22
Structural Engineering	16
Civil Engineering	3

Most Popular Majors Related to Civil Eng

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	1,890
Mechanical Engineering	1,475
Computer Engineering	1,004
Biomedical Engineering	892
Systems Engineering	663
Industrial Engineering	594
General Engineering	554
Operations Research	512
Chemical Engineering	501
Materials Engineering	185

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Master Sgt. Roger Parsons. More about our data sources and methodologies.