by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Tennessee” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Civil Engineering is the 50th most popular major in the country with 21,388 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Tennessee, there were 326 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,709 and $22,839 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 253 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,466 and $26,819 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Tennessee” ranking analyzed 8 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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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Tennessee”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Christian Brothers University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Tennessee. Memphis, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s civil eng degrees to 19 students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Tennessee Technological University landed the #2 spot on the list. Cookeville, Tennessee is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s civil eng degrees to 57 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Tennessee State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Nashville, Tennessee is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s civil eng degrees to 24 students in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Tennessee. The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga is a public institution located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 35 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville landed the #5 spot on the list. Knoxville, Tennessee is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s civil eng degrees to 77 students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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Lipscomb University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Tennessee ranking. Lipscomb is a private not-for-profit institution located in Nashville, Tennessee. The school has a small population, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
University of Memphis came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Tennessee ranking. UofM is located in Memphis, Tennessee and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 20 bachelors’s civil eng degrees to qualified students.
Vanderbilt University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Tennessee ranking. Vanderbilt is a private not-for-profit institution located in Nashville, Tennessee. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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