You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lehigh University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major in Pennsylvania. Located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 12 degrees to qualified masters’s structural engineering students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%.