by our College Data Analytics Team
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 Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Maryland” 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 Maryland, there were 300 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,904 and $26,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 58 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,303 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Maryland” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Maryland” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for maryland master’s degree civil eng students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Morgan State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Maryland list. Morgan State University is a medium-sized public school situated in Baltimore, Maryland. It awarded 4 masters’s civil eng degrees in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, Johns Hopkins University landed the #2 spot on the list. Baltimore, Maryland is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s civil eng degrees to 25 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland - College Park. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in Maryland list. University of Maryland - College Park is a large school located in College Park, Maryland that handed out 29 masters’s civil eng degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% 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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