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2023 Best Value Construction Engineering Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$37,018 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$80,502 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Construction Engineering School for You

With 19 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, construction engineering is the #280 most popular major in California.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 Construction Engineering Schools in California to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in California 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 California

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

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality in Construction Engineering

#1

National University

La Jolla, CA
$13,320 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named National University the best value school in California for construction engineering students. Located in the city of La Jolla, National University is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

National University undergraduate students pay an average of $13,320 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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$37,018 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend California Baptist University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Construction Engineering Schools in California list. Cal Baptist is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Riverside.

Cal Baptist undergraduate students pay an average of $37,018 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Construction Engineering at California Baptist University Report

Best Value Construction Engineering Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Construction Engineering Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Oregon 80
Nevada 0
Hawaii 6

Construction Engineering is one of 40 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Construction Engineering

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Electrical Engineering 28,844
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917

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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