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2023 Best Value Civil Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in New York

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$34,595 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Civil Engineering Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 393 degrees and certificates were awarded to civil engineering students who went to a New York college or university. This makes it the #56 most popular major in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Civil Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in New York to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in New York to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate 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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Civil Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in New York

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Civil Engineering Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best New York Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Civil Engineering

#1

University at Buffalo

Buffalo, NY

Our analysis found University at Buffalo to be the best value school for civil engineering students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in New York. University at Buffalo is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Buffalo.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at University at Buffalo are $14,388 per year.

Full Civil Engineering at University at Buffalo Report

#2

Clarkson University

Potsdam, NY

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Clarkson University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Civil Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in New York list. Clarkson is a small private not-for-profit school located in the remote town of Potsdam.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Clarkson are $36,472 per year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Clarkson also did well on our Best Civil Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in New York list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Full Civil Engineering at Clarkson University Report

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Columbia University in the City of New York helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value civil engineering schools in New York. Columbia is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of New York.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Columbia are $52,924 per year.

Columbia also took the #3 spot in our Best Civil Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in New York rankings.

Read full report on Civil Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New York

Best Value Civil Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 220
Maryland 80
New Jersey 192
District of Columbia 25
Delaware 29

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 3 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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