2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Doctorate For Those Getting Aid” 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.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,680 and $116,043 respectively.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for doctor’s degree civil engineering students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering (With Aid)

#1

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$33,399 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Civil Engineering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #1 spot on the list. Tucson, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s civil engineering degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

University of Arizona did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Civil Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Arizona are $33,399, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at University of Arizona

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

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