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

2 Ranked Colleges
64 Degrees Awarded
$26,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master's in South Carolina

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina” ranking.

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 South Carolina, there were 373 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,800 and $24,726 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 64 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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.

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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina

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

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

#1

Clemson University

Clemson, South Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Clemson University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina. Clemson is a large school located in Clemson, South Carolina that handed out 55 masters’s civil eng degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our south carolina master’s degree civil eng students list, Clemson has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Clemson are $23,246, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#2

University of South Carolina - Columbia

Columbia, South Carolina
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Carolina - Columbia landed the #2 spot on the list. University of South Carolina - Columbia is a large public school situated in Columbia, South Carolina. It awarded 6 masters’s civil eng degrees in 2019-2020.

UofSC also made our “Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at UofSC are $30,160, 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%.

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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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