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2023 Best Value Civil Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Massachusetts

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

6 Colleges
$33,463 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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

Civil Engineering is the #59 most popular major in Massachusetts with 238 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value Civil Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Massachusetts ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 6 schools in Massachusetts to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for civil eng students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Civil Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Civil Engineering Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Best Massachusetts Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Civil Engineering

Our analysis found University of Massachusetts Amherst to be the best value school for civil engineering students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Massachusetts. UMass Amherst is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Amherst.

UMass Amherst graduate students pay an average of $16,251 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Civil Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Northeastern University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Civil Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts list. Located in the city of Boston, Northeastern is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Northeastern are $26,095 per year.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at Northeastern University

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Massachusetts - Lowell helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value civil engineering schools in Massachusetts. UMass Lowell is a large public school located in the suburb of Lowell.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UMass Lowell are $15,210 per year.

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Out of the 6 schools in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Worcester Polytechnic Institute landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the medium-sized city of Worcester, WPI is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at WPI are $29,040 per year.

WPI also made our Best Civil Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts list, coming in at #5.

Full Civil Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Report

A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a great value for civil engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the midsize city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at MIT are $58,967 per year.

MIT also took the #1 spot in our Best Civil Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts rankings.

Full Civil Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Report

#6

Tufts University

Medford, MA

Tufts University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for civil engineering students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #6 on the list. Located in the suburb of Medford, Tufts is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

Tufts graduate students pay an average of $55,216 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Tufts is ranked #3 for overall quality for civil eng in Massachusetts.

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Best Value Civil Engineering Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Value Civil Engineering Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

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

One of 39 majors within the area of study, civil engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

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 6 schools only.

  • 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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