2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in Virginia (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Civil Engineering is the 45th most popular major in the country with 21,561 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, civil engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $60,122 and had an average of $23,807 in loans still to pay off.

Across Virginia, there were 607 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,633 and $21,288 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 160 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in civil engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent civil engineering programs, but they also 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 Eng Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in Virginia (With Aid)

#1

University of Virginia - Main Campus

Charlottesville, Virginia

#2 in overall quality

$32,394 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Virginia - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Charlottesville, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s civil eng degrees to 18 students in 2019-2020.

University of Virginia did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Virginia are $32,394, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Civil Engineering at University of Virginia - Main Campus

#2

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$30,547 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$72,298 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #2 spot on the list. Blacksburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s civil eng degrees to 105 students in 2019-2020.

Virginia Tech not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Virginia Tech are $30,547, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech

#3

George Mason University

Fairfax, Virginia

#3 in overall quality

$37,410 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$72,168 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Mason University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Civil Eng Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Getting Aid. George Mason University is located in Fairfax, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 37 masters’s civil eng degrees to qualified students.

GMU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at George Mason University are $37,410, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Civil Engineering at GMU

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering (With Aid)

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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