2022 Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Ohio For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Ohio For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Construction Engineering is the 242nd most popular major in the country with 802 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, construction engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $66,567 and had an average of $26,426 in loans still to pay off.

Across Ohio, there were 92 construction engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,900 and $25,656 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 91 construction engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,281 and $26,151 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Ohio For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in construction engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality construction engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the construction engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Ohio For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for ohio bachelor’s degree construction engineering students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering in Ohio (With Aid)

#1

Bowling Green State University - Main Campus

Bowling Green, Ohio

#2 in overall quality

$18,394 Average Net Price

$63,935 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bowling Green State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Ohio For Those Getting Aid list. Bowling Green, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s construction engineering degrees to 37 students in 2019-2020.

BGSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Construction Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Ohio” list. It costs about $18,394 for Ohio Bachelor’s Degree Construction Engineering students with aid per year to attend Bowling Green State University - Main Campus.

Full BGSU Construction Engineering Report

#2

University of Cincinnati - Main Campus

Cincinnati, Ohio

#1 in overall quality

$21,843 Average Net Price

$66,153 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Cincinnati - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Construction Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Ohio For Those Getting Aid. UC is a public institution located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The school has a large population, and it awarded 54 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Construction Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Ohio” ranking. It costs about $21,843 for Ohio Bachelor’s Degree Construction Engineering students with aid per year to attend University of Cincinnati - Main Campus.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Construction Engineering at UC

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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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