2022 Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Structural Engineering is the 665th most popular major in the country with 337 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

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.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.

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

#1

University of Central Florida

Orlando, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$10,274 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Florida. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. University of Central Florida is a public institution located in Orlando, Florida. The school has a large population, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UCF also made our “Best Structural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $10,274 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Structural Engineering students per year to attend UCF.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Structural Engineering at UCF

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Structural Engineering

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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