Ranked #35 in popularity, civil engineering is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Civil Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Arizona ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 180 bachelor's degrees in civil engineering to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Civil Engineering School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of civil engineering for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on civil engineering students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of civil engineering students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for civil engineering to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized civil engineering related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for civil engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Civil Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Arizona list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Civil Engineering in Arizona
Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for civil engineering students seeking a a bachelor's degree.
Arizona State University - Tempe is a good decision for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. ASU - Tempe is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Tempe.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the civil eng program state that they receive average early career earnings of $70,721.
Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in civil engineering needs to check out University of Arizona. Located in the large city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the civil eng program earn around $69,655 for their early career.
It is difficult to beat Northern Arizona University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. Located in the city of Flagstaff, NAU is a public university with a very large student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the civil eng program state that they receive average early career earnings of $66,589.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).