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2022 Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

7 Ranked Colleges
87 Degrees Awarded
$18,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 802 people earned their degree in construction engineering, making the major the 242nd most popular in the United States. 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 Southeast region, there were 91 construction engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,800 and $22,500 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 87 construction engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in construction engineering. 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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

Top 7 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering in the Southeast Region

#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arkansas at Little Rock. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Located in Little Rock, Arkansas, this medium-sized public school awarded 15 degrees to qualified bachelors’s construction engineering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UA Little Rock, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Construction Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $14,906 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Construction Engineering students per year to attend University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

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#1

Georgia Southern University

Statesboro, Georgia
#7 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgia Southern University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. GaSou is a large public school situated in Statesboro, Georgia. It awarded 1 bachelors’s construction engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

GaSou also took the #7 spot in our “Best Construction Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Georgia Southern University is $15,536 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Construction Engineering students.

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#3

Kennesaw State University

Kennesaw, Georgia
#6 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kennesaw State University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. KSU Georgia is a large school located in Kennesaw, Georgia that handed out 16 bachelors’s construction engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at KSU Georgia, the school also landed the #6 spot in our “Best Construction Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Kennesaw State University is $17,221 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Construction Engineering students.

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#4

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Tech. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 21 bachelors’s construction engineering degrees to qualified students.

Virginia Tech also made our “Best Construction Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $21,198 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Construction Engineering students per year to attend Virginia Tech.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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#5

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Carolina State University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. NC State is a large school located in Raleigh, North Carolina that handed out 13 bachelors’s construction engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

NC State also took the #2 spot in our “Best Construction Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $16,458 for southeast region bachelor’s degree construction engineering students per year to attend North Carolina State University.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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#6

Citadel Military College of South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina
#3 in overall quality

Citadel Military College of South Carolina came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. Charleston, South Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s construction engineering degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at The Citadel, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Construction Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Citadel Military College of South Carolina is $18,548 for southeast region bachelor’s degree construction engineering students.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 4.7% 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%.

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#7

The University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Alabama
#4 in overall quality

The University of Alabama ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s construction engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree construction engineering students list, UA has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Construction Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UA is $22,597 for southeast region bachelor’s degree construction engineering students.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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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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