2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 802 people earned their degree in construction engineering, making the major the 459th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 98 construction engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 construction engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality construction engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the construction engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree construction engineering students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

New York University

New York, New York

#1 in overall quality

$39,772 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New York University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in New York, New York, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s construction engineering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at NYU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Construction Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend New York University is $39,772 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree construction engineering students.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Daniel Christensen.

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