2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in Rhode Island (With Aid)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 21,561 people earned their degree in civil engineering, making the major the 45th most popular in the United States. 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.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality civil engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the civil engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The civil eng school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid”.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in Rhode Island (With Aid)

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$29,082 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$70,680 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid list. This fairly large school is located in Kingston, Rhode Island, and it awarded 11 masters’s civil eng degrees in 2019-2020.

URI also made our “Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Rhode Island are $29,082, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of Rhode Island Civil Engineering Report

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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

• *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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