2022 Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Indiana

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Indiana” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Indiana, there were 471 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,460 and $23,602 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 72 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,737 and $39,894 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Indiana” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in civil engineering. 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Indiana

The colleges and universities below are the best for indiana master’s degree civil eng students.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in Indiana

#1

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana

#1 in overall quality

$28,794 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$68,918 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Indiana. West Lafayette, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s civil eng degrees to 68 students in 2019-2020.

Purdue not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Indiana” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue University - Main Campus are $28,794.

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#2

Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology

Terre Haute, Indiana

#2 in overall quality

$50,379 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Indiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. Terre Haute, Indiana is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s civil eng degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Indiana” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology are $50,379, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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