2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in Kentucky

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Kentucky” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Kentucky, there were 208 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,750 and $24,329 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 41 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,847 and $34,311 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky” 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.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

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

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

#1

University of Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

#2 in overall quality

$27,575 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$62,260 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Louisville. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky list. University of Louisville is a large school located in Louisville, Kentucky that handed out 18 masters’s civil eng degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our kentucky master’s degree civil eng students list, UofL has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UofL are $27,575.

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#2

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$33,216 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kentucky landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Kentucky is a large school located in Lexington, Kentucky that handed out 23 masters’s civil eng degrees in 2019-2020.

UK also made our “Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at UK are $33,216, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at University of Kentucky

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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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