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2022 Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

4 Ranked Colleges
147 Degrees Awarded
$18,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Getting Aid

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 “Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 337 people earned their degree in structural engineering, making the major the 665th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 147 structural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in structural engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent structural engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the structural engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The structural engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid”.

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Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree structural engineering students with aid.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Structural Engineering (With Aid)

#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Florida landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Orlando, Florida, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s structural engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UCF did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Structural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Central Florida is $10,274 for Bachelor’s Degree Structural Engineering students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Structural Engineering at UCF

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - San Diego. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid. UCSD is a public institution located in La Jolla, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 102 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UCSD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Structural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of California - San Diego is $14,232 for Bachelor’s Degree Structural Engineering students with aid.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Structural Engineering at UCSD

#3

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the #3 spot on the list. WMU is a fairly large public school situated in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It awarded 5 bachelors’s structural engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

WMU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Structural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend WMU is $19,433 for bachelor’s degree structural engineering students with aid.

Read full report on Structural Engineering at Western Michigan University

#4

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern California. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Los Angeles, California, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 12 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s structural engineering students in 2019-2020.

USC also made our “Best Structural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend University of Southern California is $29,528 for Bachelor’s Degree Structural Engineering students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Structural Engineering at USC

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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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