General Civil Engineering at San Diego State University

If you plan to study general civil engineering, take a look at what San Diego State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

SDSU is located in San Diego, California and approximately 36,334 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Civil Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

SDSU General Civil Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in General Civil Engineering
• Master’s Degree in General Civil Engineering

SDSU General Civil Engineering Rankings

The general civil engineering major at SDSU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Civil Engineering. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

General Civil Engineering Student Demographics at SDSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the general civil engineering majors at San Diego State University.

SDSU General Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 65% of general civil engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 35% went to women. The typical general civil engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 29% women. So female students are more repesented at SDSU since its program graduates 5% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 13% more racial-ethnic minorities in its general civil engineering bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from San Diego State University with a bachelor's in general civil engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	21
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	37
White	62
International Students	12
Other Races/Ethnicities	8

SDSU General Civil Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 56% of general civil engineering master's degrees went to men and 44% went to women.

In the general civil engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 50% of degree recipients. That is 19% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from San Diego State University with a master's in general civil engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	6
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

Careers That General Civil Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in general civil engineering can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for San Diego State University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Civil Engineers	45,060	$109,680
Architectural and Engineering Managers	31,580	$175,010
Engineering Professors	2,400	$129,790

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Wikipedia User:Geographer under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.