2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in Nevada

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Nevada” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Nevada, there were 179 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,082 and $23,750 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 40 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,876 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Nevada” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in civil engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their civil engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Nevada

The colleges and universities below are the best for nevada master’s degree civil eng students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in Nevada

1

University of Nevada - Reno
Reno, Nevada

#2 overall quality in Nevada

$60,203 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nevada - Reno. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Nevada list. UNR is a public institution located in Reno, Nevada. The school has a large population, and it awarded 24 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at University of Nevada - Reno

2

University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

#1 overall quality in Nevada

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nevada - Las Vegas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Nevada list. UNLV is located in Las Vegas, Nevada and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 16 masters’s civil eng degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Master’s 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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