2025 Best Structural Engineering Schools in the Far Western US Region
3Colleges in the Far Western US Region
243Structural Engineering Degrees Awarded
Structural Engineering is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #673 out of the 1506 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Structural Engineering Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 243 degrees in structural engineering annually.
Your choice of structural engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Structural Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
The structural engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Structural Engineering Schools in the Far Western US Region.
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Best Schools for Structural Engineering in the Far Western US Region
The schools below may not offer all types of structural engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Far Western US Region Schools in Structural Engineering
Any student pursuing a degree in structural engineering needs to check out University of Southern California. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #13 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means USC is a great university overall.
There were roughly 38 structural engineering students who graduated with this degree at USC in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat University of California - San Diego if you want to pursue a degree in structural engineering. Located in the city of La Jolla, UCSD is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 8th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 183 structural engineering students who graduated with this degree at UCSD in the most recent data year.
California State University - Northridge is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in structural engineering. CSUN is a very large public university located in the large city of Northridge. This university ranks 48th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 17 structural engineering students who graduated with this degree at CSUN in the most recent data year.
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).
Your choice of structural engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Structural Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
