2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in District of Columbia

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in District of Columbia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2021-2022, 19,994 people earned their degree in general civil engineering, making the major the 41st most popular in the United States.

Across District of Columbia, there were 91 general civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 70 general civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,578 and $24,158 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in general civil engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general civil engineering.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in District of Columbia”.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Civil Engineering in District of Columbia

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University of the District of Columbia
Washington, District of Columbia

#8 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the District of Columbia. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in District of Columbia list. University of the District of Columbia is a small public school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 15 bachelors’s general civil engineering degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Civil Engineering at University of the District of Columbia

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Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

#4 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Catholic University of America landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 19 degrees to qualified bachelors’s general civil engineering students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on General Civil Engineering at CUA

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Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

#6 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Howard University landed the #3 spot on the list. Howard is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 14 bachelors’s general civil engineering degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Howard General Civil Engineering Report

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George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#2 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Washington University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Civil Engineering Major in District of Columbia list. GWU is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 22 bachelors’s general civil engineering degrees in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Civil Engineering at GWU

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 Master Sgt. Roger Parsons.