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2023 Best Value Civil Engineering Schools in New Jersey

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$30,247 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$68,872 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Civil Engineering School for You

In 2020-2021, 192 degrees and certificates were awarded to civil engineering students who went to a New Jersey college or university. This makes it the #31 most popular major in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

The Best Value Civil Engineering Schools in New Jersey ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in New Jersey to see which programs offered the best value experiences for civil eng students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Civil Engineering Schools in New Jersey

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for civil eng majors pursuing a .

Best New Jersey Schools for Affordable Quality in Civil Engineering

$15,804 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Rutgers University - New Brunswick the best value school in New Jersey for civil engineering students. Located in the small city of New Brunswick, Rutgers New Brunswick is a public college with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Rutgers New Brunswick are $15,804 per year.

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$18,016 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best civil engineering schools in New Jersey. Located in the large city of Newark, NJIT is a public college with a large student population.

NJIT undergraduate students pay an average of $18,016 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#3

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ
$56,010 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Princeton University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best civil engineering schools in New Jersey. Located in the small city of Princeton, Princeton is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Princeton are $56,010 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Princeton is ranked #1 for overall quality for civil eng in New Jersey.

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$56,920 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Stevens Institute of Technology. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Civil Engineering Schools in New Jersey list. Located in the large suburb of Hoboken, Stevens is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Stevens are $56,920 a year.

Stevens also made our Best Civil Engineering Schools in New Jersey list, coming in at #4.

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Best Value Civil Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
New York 393
Pennsylvania 220
Maryland 80
District of Columbia 25
Delaware 29

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 4 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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