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

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 Master’s in Maryland” 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 Maryland, there were 281 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,050 and $25,125 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 53 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,477 and $45,000 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Maryland” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in civil engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great civil engineering programs and cost less that 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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Maryland” list to help you make the college decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

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

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

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

#1

University of Maryland - College Park

College Park, Maryland

#2 in overall quality

$30,885 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maryland - College Park. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Maryland. College Park, Maryland is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s civil eng degrees to 28 students in 2019-2020.

UMCP did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UMCP are $30,885, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Civil Engineering at University of Maryland - College Park

#2

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$59,425 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$81,333 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, Johns Hopkins University landed the #2 spot on the list. Johns Hopkins is a large school located in Baltimore, Maryland that handed out 25 masters’s civil eng degrees in 2019-2020.

Johns Hopkins did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Johns Hopkins are $59,425, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at Johns Hopkins

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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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