2025 Best General Civil Engineering Schools in North Carolina
4Colleges in North Carolina
378General Civil Engineering Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in general civil engineering, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #41 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 4 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Civil Engineering Schools in North Carolina ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 378 degrees in general civil engineering to qualified students.
Your choice of general civil engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Civil Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Civil Engineering Schools in North Carolina ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for General Civil Engineering in North Carolina
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the general civil engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top North Carolina Schools in General Civil Engineering
Duke University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general civil engineering. Duke is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Durham. A Best Colleges rank of #7 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Duke is a great university overall.
There were approximately 32 general civil engineering students who graduated with this degree at Duke in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in general civil engineering has to look into North Carolina State University. Located in the city of Raleigh, NC State is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #122 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means NC State is a great university overall.
There were approximately 184 general civil engineering students who graduated with this degree at NC State in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in general civil engineering needs to check out University of North Carolina at Charlotte. UNC Charlotte is a very large public university located in the city of Charlotte. This university ranks 10th out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were about 132 general civil engineering students who graduated with this degree at UNC Charlotte in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in general civil engineering has to take a look at North Carolina A & T State University. Located in the city of Greensboro, NC A&T is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 51st out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were about 30 general civil engineering students who graduated with this degree at NC A&T in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
Your choice of general civil engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Civil Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
