2022 Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Civil Engineering is the 928th most popular major in the country with 116 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 5 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in civil engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great civil engineering programs and 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 program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Carbondale, Illinois

$32,928 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k. SIUC is located in Carbondale, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 masters’s civil engineering degrees to qualified students.

SIUC also made our “Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are $32,928, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Southern Illinois University Carbondale Civil Engineering Report

#2

Illinois Institute of Technology

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$30,695 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Illinois Institute of Technology. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified masters’s civil engineering students in 2019-2020.

Illinois Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Illinois Institute of Technology are $30,695.

Read more about Civil Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology

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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.

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