A degree in civil engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #50 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Utah to determine which ones were the best for civil engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 251 degrees in civil engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The civil eng program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Civil Engineering rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for civil engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Civil Engineering Schools in Utah list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The schools below may not offer all types of civil eng degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Brigham Young University - Provo is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in civil engineering. Located in the medium-sized city of Provo, BYU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #100 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means BYU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 82 civil engineering students who graduated with this degree at BYU in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduation, civil eng degree recipients usually make around $62,351 in their early careers.
University of Utah is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in civil engineering. Located in the city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #151 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means U of U is a great university overall.
There were roughly 55 civil engineering students who graduated with this degree at U of U in the most recent data year. Degree recipients from the civil engineering degree program at University of Utah make $3,196 above the standard college grad in this field when they enter the workforce.
It is difficult to beat Utah State University if you wish to pursue a degree in civil engineering. USU is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Logan. This university ranks 5th out of 13 schools for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were approximately 99 civil engineering students who graduated with this degree at USU in the most recent year we have data available. After graduating, civil eng degree recipients usually earn around $57,592 at the beginning of their careers.
It's hard to beat Utah Valley University if you wish to pursue a degree in civil engineering. UVU is a very large public university located in the small city of Orem. This university ranks 4th out of 13 colleges for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were approximately 8 civil engineering students who graduated with this degree at UVU in the most recent data year.
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).