2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering in the Far Western US Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Construction Engineering is the 242nd most popular major in the country with 802 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, construction engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $66,567 and had an average of $26,426 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 122 construction engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,700 and $28,670 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 122 construction engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,083 and $22,209 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in construction engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent construction engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the construction engineering program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region

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

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering in the Far Western US Region

#1

National University

La Jolla, California

#2 in overall quality

$73,737 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, National University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in La Jolla, California, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s construction engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our far western us region bachelor’s degree construction engineering students list, National University has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Construction Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full National University Construction Engineering Report

#2

Oregon State University

Corvallis, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$20,016 Average Net Price

$72,298 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oregon State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region. Oregon State is a large school located in Corvallis, Oregon that handed out 100 bachelors’s construction engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Oregon State also took the #1 spot in our “Best Construction Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Oregon State University is $20,016 for far western us region bachelor’s degree construction engineering students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, 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 85%.

Read more about Construction Engineering at Oregon State

#3

California Baptist University

Riverside, California

#3 in overall quality

$24,707 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend California Baptist University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region. California Baptist University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Riverside, California. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Cal Baptist, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Construction Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Cal Baptist is $24,707 for far western us region bachelor’s degree construction engineering students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Construction Engineering at Cal Baptist

#4

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii

#4 in overall quality

$15,030 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hawaii at Manoa. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region. Honolulu, Hawaii is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s construction engineering degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

UH Manoa did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Construction Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. The yearly cost to attend UH Manoa is $15,030 for Far Western US Region Bachelor’s Degree Construction Engineering students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UH Manoa Construction Engineering Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction 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.

Credits

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

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