If you plan on getting your master's degree in civil engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #40 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Utah to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of civil engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 78 master's degrees in civil engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
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.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 full 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.
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 Utah list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Civil Engineering in Utah
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in civil engineering.
It is hard to beat University of Utah if you wish to pursue a master's degree in civil engineering. U of U is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City.
Civil Engineering master's degree recipients from University of Utah get an earnings boost of about $5,030 over the typical income of civil engineering graduates.
Brigham Young University - Provo is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in civil engineering. BYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Provo.
Master's graduates who receive their degree from the civil eng program earn about $64,393 for their early career.
Every student who is interested in a master's degree in civil engineering needs to take a look at Utah State University. Located in the city of Logan, USU is a public university with a very large student population.
Soon after graduation, civil eng master's recipients usually make an average of $59,967 in their early careers.
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).