2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering Technology in the Southwest Region

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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2021-2022, 1,155 people earned their degree in civil engineering technology, making the major the 237th most popular in the United States. In , civil engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $54,421 and had an average of $22,507 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 25 civil engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,110 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 civil engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in civil engineering technology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in civil engineering technology.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree civil engineering tech students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering Technology in the Southwest Region

1

University of Houston - Downtown
Houston, Texas

$53,110 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston - Downtown. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region list. This fairly large school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 18 bachelors’s civil engineering tech degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.3% 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%.

Read full report on Civil Engineering Technology at UH Downtown

2

Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology
Okmulgee, Oklahoma

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region list. Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology is a small school located in Okmulgee, Oklahoma that handed out 4 bachelors’s civil engineering tech degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Civil Engineering Technology at OSU Institute of Technology

3

Texas Southern University
Houston, Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Southern University landed the #3 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s civil engineering tech degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Civil Engineering Technology at TSU

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.