2025 Best Trasportation Engineering Schools in California

If you're seeking a degree in trasportation engineering, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #914 one in the country in terms of popularity.While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.

College Factual reviewed 2 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of trasportation engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 19 degrees in trasportation engineering annually.

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• Best Overall Trasportation Engineering Schools List

Pick Your Trasportation Engineering Degree Level

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 Trasportation Engineering Schools in California list to help you make the college decision. More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.

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Best Schools for Trasportation Engineering in California

The schools below may not offer all types of transportation engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.

Top California Schools in Transportation Engineering

1

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

University of Southern California is a great decision for students interested in a degree in trasportation engineering. USC is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Los Angeles.More information about a degree in trasportation engineering from University of Southern California

2

University of California - Davis
Davis, CA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

11.1% Growth in Graduates

University of California - Davis is a great option for students interested in a degree in trasportation engineering. Located in the small suburb of Davis, UC Davis is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a degree in trasportation engineering from University of California - Davis

Best Trasportation Engineering Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Trasportation Engineering Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Washington	831	37
Nevada	354	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to Transportation Engineering

One of 5 majors within the Civil Engineering area of study, Trasportation Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Transportation Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Civil Engineering	2,949
Structural Engineering	240
Civil Engineering	57
Geoenvironmental Engineering	4

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Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Master Sgt. Roger Parsons.

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