2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in West Virginia

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 West Virginia” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 West Virginia, there were 112 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,059 and $26,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 102 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,642 and $26,170 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in West Virginia” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in civil engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in civil engineering.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in West Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for west virginia bachelor’s degree civil eng students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in West Virginia

1

West Virginia University Institute of Technology
Beckley, West Virginia

#15 overall quality in West Virginia

$62,059 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,000 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia University Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Beckley, West Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s civil eng degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Civil Engineering at West Virginia University Tech

2

West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia

#2 overall quality in West Virginia

$62,059 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,000 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Morgantown, West Virginia, this large public school awarded 88 degrees to qualified bachelors’s civil eng students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Civil Engineering at WVU

3

Marshall University
Huntington, West Virginia

#5 overall quality in West Virginia

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Marshall University landed the #3 spot on the list. Marshall University is a fairly large public school situated in Huntington, West Virginia. It awarded 3 bachelors’s civil eng degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Marshall University Civil Engineering Report

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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

• *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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