2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region

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Structural Engineering is the 673rd most popular major in the country with 332 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 262 structural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 structural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,423 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in structural engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in structural engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree structural engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Structural Engineering in the Far Western US Region

1

University of California - San Diego
La Jolla, California

#16 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - San Diego. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region list. La Jolla, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s structural engineering degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

Read full report on Structural Engineering at University of California - San Diego

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San Diego State University
San Diego, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend San Diego State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region list. SDSU is located in San Diego, California and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 doctorate’s structural engineering degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full San Diego State University Structural Engineering Report

• Most Focused Doctor’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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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