2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in Rhode Island

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Civil Engineering is the 45th most popular major in the country with 21,561 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, civil engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $60,122 and had an average of $23,807 in loans still to pay off.

Across Rhode Island, there were 87 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,300 and $26,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the civil engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. 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 Eng Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in Rhode Island

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$29,082 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$70,680 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the #1 spot on the list. URI is a fairly large public school situated in Kingston, Rhode Island. It awarded 11 masters’s civil eng degrees in 2019-2020.

URI not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at URI are $29,082.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at URI

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering (Income $0-$30k)

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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