2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Civil Engineering

CIVIL ENGINEERING DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

It's super common for undergraduates to pursue a degree in civil engineering. On average, each field gives out roughly 6,000 undergrad degrees per year; 14,832 people were awarded four-year degrees in civil engineering last May, making it the 35th most popular focus in the USA. 247 of those students are now alumni of Texas A & M University-College Station, which proudly has the largest department in the USA. 1,996 of those alumni attended institutions in California.

Undergrad degrees in civil engineering are offered at 280 colleges around the nation; therefore, singling out the right program may often be hard. 45.9% more schools offer four-year degrees in civil engineering than the average course of study, making it the 80th most commonly available degree in the United States.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While 68% of last spring's degrees in civil engineering were undergraduate degrees; 32% were advanced degrees. Civil engineering is the 33rd most popular postgraduate degree in the United States, with 6,844 degrees granted. To put that in context, postgraduate degrees in civil engineering are 2.5 times more popular among graduate students than the average subject.

In Total, 21,676 students received a bachelor's or higher in civil engineering last year.

ONLINE CIVIL ENGINEERING DEGREES

441 of those 21,676 graduates (2%) received their degrees remotely - 5 undergrad students and 436 graduate students. As you can likely see, very few undergraduate students decide to major in civil engineering online. It's presently the 233rd most in-demand remote degree, and 99% south of the national average of 481 students per subject. For postgrad students, it's ranked 60th, and is 29.2% shy of the nation's average (616).

The University of North Dakota​ conferred more online four-year degrees in civil engineering than any other US college (5).

There are 2 schools in the country with a remote college degree in civil engineering, making it the 80th most commonly offered remote US degree. Less than 1% of the schools providing the degree even have a remote option, and every single college awarding bachelor's degree in civil engineering is public.

If you wish to study civil engineering remotely, you may want to think about the University of North Dakota, as it has the 179th best civil engineering program in the United States. They also award an additional 66 degrees remotely, so their systems are presumably strong. Furthermore, they have 1,851 online undergraduate students, which is 18% of their whole student body.

PARTIALLY ONLINE CIVIL ENGINEERING DEGREES

• Last year, 3,758 people completed four-year degrees in civil engineering partially online
• Partially online four-year degrees in civil engineering are offered at 258 institutions coast-to-coast
• 25.34% of all four-year degree in civil engineering are completed partially online
• Florida International University​ granted 88 partially online bachelor's degrees in civil engineering, more than any other American institution
• The average area of study is offered partially online at nearly 154 institutions

IN-PERSON CIVIL ENGINEERING DEGREES

• Last year, 10,985 students received undergraduate degrees in civil engineering completely in-person
• Bachelor's degrees in civil engineering are available totally in-person at 20 institutions in the country
• 74.06% of all four-year degree in civil engineering are earned exclusively in-person
• Virginia Military Institute's​ last undergraduate class had the most dense population of in-person civil engineering majors in the country (14.6%)
• New York houses 4 schools offering bachelor's degrees completely in-person in civil engineering, more than any other state
• The average entirely in-person area of study hands out 6,102 annual bachelor's degrees or higher