Civil Engineering

  • Civil engineers design and supervise the construction of roads, buildings, airports, tunnels, dams, and bridges
  • Civil engineering is considered one of the oldest engineering fields
  • The average salary for a civil engineer is $74,600
  • A civil engineer's salary with a Bachelor's degree is $52,048
  • There are 278,400 civil engineers in the United States
  • The civil engineering field is expected to grow by 24 percent in the next decade
  • The top thre schools for civil engineering are University of California, Berkeley, University of Illinois, and Georgia Tech.