Best Schools for Trasportation Engineering in California
If you are not interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the trasportation engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Schools in Trasportation Engineering
Our analysis ranked University Of California Davis the best school in the country for a degree in trasportation engineering. This very large public university is located in the suburb of Davis. The six-year graduation rate is 86%. University Of California Davis awarded about 14 trasportation engineering degrees in the most recent data year. Graduates of the trasportation engineering program make about $81,037 in their early career. University Of California Davis graduates carry a median of $16,101 in student loans.
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Notes and References
The ranking above is published by College Factual (MF_RANKING_2025), 2026 edition. The methodology weighs graduation rate, post-graduation earnings, cost, and program quality, drawn primarily from the U.S. Department of Education (IPEDS and College Scorecard).
Ranking method: College Major Top Ranked · 2 schools evaluated.
- 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).
More about our data sources and methodologies.