2022 Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska

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 “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska” 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 Nebraska, there were 132 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,600 and $17,344 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 109 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,068 and $24,613 respectively.

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

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the civil engineering program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Bachelor’s in Nebraska” 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 Bachelor’s in Nebraska

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in Nebraska

#1

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Lincoln, Nebraska

#1 in overall quality

$17,208 Average Net Price

$57,657 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska. Located in Lincoln, Nebraska, this large public school awarded 109 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s civil eng students in 2019-2020.

UNL also took the #1 spot in our “Best Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UNL is $17,208 for Nebraska Bachelor’s Degree Civil Eng students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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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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