The main focus area for this major is General Civil Engineering. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Civil Engineering is a major offered under the engineering program of study at Lehigh University. We’ve gathered data and other essential information about the bachelor’s degree program in civil eng, such as diversity of students, how many students graduated in recent times, and more.
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Each year, we produce a number of different types of college rankings to help students decide which school is the best fit for them. Lehigh was ranked #38 on College Factual's most recent list of the best schools for civil eng majors. This puts the bachelor's program at the school solidly in the top 15% of all colleges and universities in the country. It is also ranked #5 in Pennsylvania.
Here are some of the other rankings for Lehigh.
Part-time undergraduates at Lehigh paid an average of $2,285 per credit hour in 2019-2020. This tuition was the same for both in-state and out-of-state students. The average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $54,790 | $54,790 |
Fees | $470 | $470 |
Books and Supplies | $1,000 | $1,000 |
On Campus Room and Board | $14,740 | $14,740 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $1,065 | $1,065 |
Learn more about Lehigh tuition and fees.
You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. Students who received their bachelor’s degree at Lehigh in Civil Eng walked away with an average of $23,250 in student debt. That is about the same as the national average of $23,346.
civil eng who receive their bachelor’s degree from Lehigh make an average of $64,196 a year during the early days of their career. That is 11% higher than the national average of $57,979.
Lehigh does not offer an online option for its civil eng bachelor’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Lehigh Online Learning page.
Women made up around 42.4% of the civil eng students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 27.3%.
Around 21.2% of civil eng bachelor’s degree recipients at Lehigh in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 31%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 3 |
Black or African American | 1 |
Hispanic or Latino | 2 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 1 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 21 |
International Students | 2 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 3 |
Civil Engineering students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Civil Engineering | 33 |
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Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Biomedical Engineering | 56 |
Chemical Engineering | 22 |
Computer Engineering | 24 |
Electrical Engineering | 28 |
Engineering Physics | 1 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.