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2023 Best Value Civil Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in South Carolina

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$12,965 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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

Civil Engineering is the #41 most popular major in South Carolina with 310 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Civil Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in South Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in South Carolina 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. 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 Doctor’s Degree Schools in South Carolina

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

Best South Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Civil Engineering

#1

Clemson University

Clemson, SC

Our 2023 rankings named Clemson University the best value school in South Carolina for civil engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the large suburb of Clemson, Clemson is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Clemson are $11,796 a year.

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

Read full report on Civil Engineering at Clemson University

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of South Carolina - Columbia is a great value for civil engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. UofSC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Columbia.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UofSC are $14,134 a year.

UofSC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Civil Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in South Carolina list.

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Best Value Civil Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 446
Virginia 616
North Carolina 448
Florida 1,166
Tennessee 326
Kentucky 220
Louisiana 247
Arkansas 118
Alabama 461
Mississippi 193
West Virginia 112

One of 40 majors within the area of study, civil engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Electrical Engineering 28,844
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917
Biomedical Engineering 12,811

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 Master Sgt. Roger Parsons.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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