2022 Best Value Civil Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Civil Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,344 people earned their degree in civil engineering technology, making the major the 219th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, civil engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $53,936 and had an average of $20,807 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 35 civil engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 civil engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Civil Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in civil engineering technology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent civil engineering technology 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 civil engineering technology program at the school. 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 Civil Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Civil Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Civil Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering Technology (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology

Okmulgee, Oklahoma

#2 in overall quality

$4,771 Average Net Price

$52,107 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Civil Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. OSU Institute of Technology is a small public school situated in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. It awarded 10 bachelors’s civil engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

OSU Institute of Technology also took the #2 spot in our “Best Civil Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend OSU Institute of Technology is $4,771 for southwest region bachelor’s degree civil engineering tech students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read full report on Civil Engineering Technology at OSU Institute of Technology

#2

University of Houston - Downtown

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$5,065 Average Net Price

$57,318 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston - Downtown. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Civil Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s civil engineering tech degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

UH Downtown also made our “Best Civil Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $5,065 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Civil Engineering Tech students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend University of Houston - Downtown.

Full University of Houston - Downtown Civil Engineering Technology Report

#3

Texas Southern University

Houston, Texas

#3 in overall quality

$19,390 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Southern University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Civil Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Texas Southern University is a medium-sized school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 6 bachelors’s civil engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

TSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Civil Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $19,390 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Civil Engineering Tech students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend TSU.

Full Texas Southern University Civil Engineering Technology Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering Technology (Income $0-$30k)

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 Sean Mack.

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