2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Structural Engineering in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 9 structural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 structural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great structural engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the structural engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Structural Engineering in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Central Florida

Orlando, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$10,274 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Florida landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Orlando, Florida, this large public school handed out 9 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s structural engineering students in 2019-2020.

UCF did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Structural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for UCF is $10,274 for southeast region 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 full report on Structural Engineering at University of Central Florida

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

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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