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Most Popular Schools for Structural Engineering Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the design, development and operational evaluation of materials and systems used in building load-bearing structures for various purposes and in different environments, including buildings, roads, rail lines, bridges, dams, conduits, offshore platforms and work stations, and other structural shells; and the analysis of structural problems such as, failure, fabrication, safety, and natural hazards.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 University of California-San Diego 204 2% $32,838
2 University of Southern California 83 1% $74,825
3 Illinois Institute of Technology 26 1% $65,386
4 Lehigh University 22 1% $68,595
5 California State University-Northridge 20 0% $22,969
6 Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg 13 1% $33,396
7 New York University 9 0% $73,566
8 University of Central Florida 7 0% $22,548
9 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 7 0% $30,298
10 Seattle University 6 0% $61,608
11 Milwaukee School of Engineering 6 1% $53,684
12 University of California-Los Angeles 4 0% $34,620
13 Western Michigan University 3 0% $26,009
14 Harrisburg Area Community College 2 0% $8,651
15 University of Akron Main Campus 2 0% $27,279

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Structural Engineering program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.