2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Major in the Southwest Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Civil Engineering is the 908th most popular major in the country with 131 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 8 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in civil engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree civil engineering students.
Top 1 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Civil Engineering Major in the Southwest Region list. UNM is a large public school situated in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It awarded 3 bachelors’s civil engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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%.
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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%.
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- *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.
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