2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 21,388 people earned their degree in civil engineering, making the major the 50th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, civil engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $63,364 and had an average of $24,364 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 2,298 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,030 and $22,313 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 40 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in civil engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in civil engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree civil eng students.

Top 6 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in the Southwest Region

1

El Paso Community College
El Paso, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend El Paso Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in El Paso, Texas, and it awarded 36 associates’s civil eng degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at El Paso Community College

2

McLennan Community College
Waco, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, McLennan Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. MCC is a medium-sized school located in Waco, Texas that handed out 3 associates’s civil eng degrees in 2020-2021.

Full McLennan Community College Civil Engineering Report

3

Blinn College
Brenham, Texas

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Blinn College landed the #3 spot on the list. Blinn College is a fairly large school located in Brenham, Texas that handed out 1 associates’s civil eng degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Blinn College Civil Engineering Report

4

Palo Alto College
San Antonio, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Palo Alto College. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in the Southwest Region. Palo Alto College is located in San Antonio, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 associates’s civil eng degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at Palo Alto College

4

Collin County Community College District
McKinney, Texas

Top 10% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Collin County Community College District. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in the Southwest Region list. Collin County Community College District is a public institution located in McKinney, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at Collin County Community College District

4

Austin Community College District
Austin, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Austin Community College District. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Austin, Texas, this large public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s civil eng students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at Austin Community College District

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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