Ranked #35 in popularity, civil engineering is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Alaska to determine which ones were the best for civil engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 43 bachelor's degrees in civil engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to civil engineering students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other civil engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt civil engineering students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized civil engineering related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for civil engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Civil Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Alaska ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Civil Engineering in Alaska
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for civil engineering students seeking a a bachelor's degree.
Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in civil engineering has to check out University of Alaska Fairbanks. Located in the suburb of Fairbanks, UAF is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.
Those civil engineering students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Alaska Fairbanks receive $6,170 more than the standard civil eng student.
University of Alaska Anchorage is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. Located in the large city of Anchorage, UAA is a public university with a large student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the civil eng program state that they receive average early career wages of $55,504.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).