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2023 Best Value Construction Engineering Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$32,989 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$67,331 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Construction Engineering School for You

Construction Engineering is the #153 most popular major in Illinois with 27 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. 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 Value Construction Engineering Schools in Illinois to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Illinois to see which programs offered the best value experiences for construction engineering students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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 Construction Engineering Schools in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Construction Engineering Colleges.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality in Construction Engineering

$15,603 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Illinois at Chicago to be the best value school for construction engineering students who want to pursue a degree in Illinois. Located in the city of Chicago, UIC is a public college with a very large student population.

UIC undergraduate students pay an average of $15,603 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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$50,375 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Illinois Institute of Technology helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best construction engineering schools in Illinois. Illinois Tech is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Illinois Tech are $50,375 a year.

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Best Value Construction Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Construction Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 20

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

Majors Similar to Construction Engineering

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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 Daniel Christensen.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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