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2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major

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Schools for a Bachelor's Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Structural Engineering is the 673rd most popular major in the country with 332 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 155 structural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,724 and $23,030 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in structural engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in structural engineering.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree structural engineering students.

Top 5 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Structural Engineering

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - San Diego. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major list. University of California - San Diego is located in La Jolla, California and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 110 bachelors’s structural engineering degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full UCSD Structural Engineering Report

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Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the #2 spot on the list. WMU is a public institution located in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Structural Engineering at WMU

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University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern California. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major 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 17 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.

Read full report on Structural Engineering at University of Southern California

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Florida. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major list. UCF is a public institution located in Orlando, Florida. The school has a large population, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Structural Engineering at UCF

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University at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University at Buffalo. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major. University at Buffalo is a public institution located in Buffalo, New York. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University at Buffalo Structural Engineering Report

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