2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering in California

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in California” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 California, there were 18 construction engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,900 and $26,340 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 construction engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,907 and $21,546 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in California” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in California

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in California.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering in California

#1

National University

La Jolla, California

#1 in overall quality

$73,737 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend National University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in California. Located in La Jolla, California, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 11 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s construction engineering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at National University, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Construction Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” ranking.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full National University Construction Engineering Report

#2

California Baptist University

Riverside, California

#2 in overall quality

$24,707 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in California that were part of this year’s ranking, California Baptist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Cal Baptist is located in Riverside, California and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s construction engineering degrees to qualified students.

Cal Baptist did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Construction Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” list. It costs about $24,707 for california bachelor’s degree construction engineering students per year to attend Cal Baptist.

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%.

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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.

Credits

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

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