2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in North Dakota

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in North Dakota” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 20,655 people earned their degree in civil engineering, making the major the 50th most popular in the United States. In , civil engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $63,350 and had an average of $22,686 in loans still to pay off.

Across North Dakota, there were 143 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,932 and $20,231 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 civil engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,776 and $29,932 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in North Dakota” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in civil engineering. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in North Dakota

The colleges and universities below are the best for north dakota master’s degree civil eng students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering in North Dakota

1

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

#2 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Dakota. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in North Dakota list. UND is a fairly large school located in Grand Forks, North Dakota that handed out 2 masters’s civil eng degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at UND

2

North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Fargo, North Dakota

#1 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Civil Eng Major in North Dakota. North Dakota State University is a fairly large school located in Fargo, North Dakota that handed out 2 masters’s civil eng degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full North Dakota State University Civil Engineering Report

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

• *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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