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2023 Best Civil Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region

17 Colleges
$70,613 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Civil Engineering Master's Degree School for You

Civil Engineering is the #43 most popular major in the country with 6,042 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Civil Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 17 schools in the New England Region to see which ones offered the best master's degree programs for students. To come up with a school's ranking, we analyzed numerous factors related to post-graduation wages, the quality of education offered by the school, average accumulated student debt, and more.

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2023 Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region

Check out the civil eng master's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best education that money can buy.

Top 10 Best Civil Engineering Master's Degree Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Massachusetts Institute of Technology the best school in the New England Region for civil engineering students working on their master’s degree. MIT is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Cambridge.

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#2

Tufts University

Medford, MA

The excellent master’s degree programs at Tufts University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best civil engineering schools in the New England Region . Tufts is a large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Medford.

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Out of the 17 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeastern University landed the # 3 spot on the list. Northeastern is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Boston.

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A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a great place for civil engineering students working on their master’s degree. WPI is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Worcester.

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#5

University of New Haven

West Haven, CT

The excellent master’s degree programs at University of New Haven helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best civil engineering schools in the New England Region . Located in the large suburb of West Haven, University of New Haven is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

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#6

Norwich University

Northfield, VT

With a ranking of #6, Norwich University did quite well on this year’s best schools for civil engineering students working on their master’s degree. Norwich is a small private not-for-profit school located in the town of Northfield.

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University of Connecticut did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for civil engineering students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #7 on the list. Located in the large suburb of Storrs, UCONN is a public college with a fairly large student population.

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Wentworth Institute of Technology ranked #8 on this year’s Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list. WIT is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Boston.

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#9

Merrimack College

North Andover, MA

Merrimack College came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Civil Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. Merrimack is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of North Andover.

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#10

University of Hartford

West Hartford, CT

University of Hartford did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for civil engineering students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #10 on the list. Located in the medium-sized city of West Hartford, UHart is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.

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Best Civil Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best civil engineering colleges for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 238
Connecticut 49
Rhode Island 15
New Hampshire 20
Maine 15
Vermont 30

Civil Engineering is one of 39 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252
General Engineering 3,548

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 17 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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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