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2022 Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k

4 Ranked Colleges
147 Degrees Awarded
$12,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $30-$48k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking.

Structural Engineering is the 665th most popular major in the country with 337 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 147 structural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in structural engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent structural 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 structural engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree structural engineering students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Structural Engineering (Income $30-$48k)

#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Florida. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k list. UCF is located in Orlando, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 9 bachelors’s structural engineering degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UCF, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Structural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Central Florida is $7,847 for bachelor’s degree structural engineering students whose families make $30-$48k.

The low student loan default rate of 4.2% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - San Diego. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k. University of California - San Diego is a public institution located in La Jolla, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 102 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UCSD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Structural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $9,974 for bachelor’s degree structural engineering students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend UCSD.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of California - San Diego Structural Engineering Report

#3

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern California. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k list. University of Southern California is a private not-for-profit institution located in Los Angeles, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

USC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Structural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend USC is $16,252 for bachelor’s degree structural engineering students whose families make $30-$48k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Structural Engineering at University of Southern California

#4

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the #4 spot on the list. Kalamazoo, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s structural engineering degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

WMU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Structural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $15,276 for bachelor’s degree structural engineering students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Western Michigan University.

Read more about Structural Engineering at WMU

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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