2025 Best Structural Engineering Schools in California
3Colleges in California
240Structural Engineering Degrees Awarded
Structural Engineering isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #673 in popularity out of 1506 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for structural engineering students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 240 degrees in structural engineering to qualified students.
The structural engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Structural Engineering rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for structural engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Structural Engineering Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Structural Engineering in California
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the structural engineering degree levels they offer.
University of Southern California is a great option for students pursuing a degree in structural engineering. USC is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Los Angeles. A Best Colleges rank of #13 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means USC is a great university overall.
There were approximately 38 structural engineering students who graduated with this degree at USC in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in structural engineering needs to take a look at University of California - San Diego. UCSD is a fairly large public university located in the large city of La Jolla. This university ranks 8th out of 161 colleges 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 year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat California State University - Northridge if you wish to pursue a degree in structural engineering. Located in the city of Northridge, CSUN is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 48th out of 161 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were approximately 17 structural engineering students who graduated with this degree at CSUN in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
The structural engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Structural Engineering rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for structural engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
