2025 Best Civil Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

If you pursue a doctor's degree in civil engineering, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #29 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 7 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Civil Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 195 doctor's degrees in civil engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Civil Engineering School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of civil engineering for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality civil eng program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to civil engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other civil engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt civil engineering students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized civil engineering related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for civil engineering students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Civil Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Civil Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in civil engineering.

Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Doctorate in Civil Eng

1

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY

12 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Columbia University in the City of New York if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in civil engineering. Columbia is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New York.More information about a doctorate in civil engineering from Columbia University in the City of New York

2

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

11 Annual Graduates

Carnegie Mellon University is a good choice for students interested in a doctor's degree in civil engineering. Carnegie Mellon is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Pittsburgh.More information about a doctorate in civil engineering from Carnegie Mellon University

3

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD

19 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in civil engineering has to take a look at University of Maryland - College Park. Located in the suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in civil engineering from University of Maryland - College Park

4

Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA

12 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat Lehigh University if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in civil engineering. Lehigh is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Bethlehem.More information about a doctorate in civil engineering from Lehigh University

5

University of Delaware
Newark, DE

15 Annual Graduates

Located in the suburb of Newark, UD is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in civil engineering from University of Delaware

6

University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus
Pittsburgh, PA

13 Annual Graduates

Pitt is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Pittsburgh.More information about a doctorate in civil engineering from University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus

7

University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

13 Annual Graduates

University at Buffalo is a very large public university located in the large suburb of Buffalo.More information about a doctorate in civil engineering from University at Buffalo

Best Civil Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best civil engineering schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	176	29
New York	174	57
Maryland	119	22
New Jersey	115	23
District of Columbia	81	5
Delaware	53	5

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Civil Engineering Related Rankings by Major

Civil Engineering is one of 41 different types of Engineering programs to choose from.

Civil Eng Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Civil Engineering	174
Trasportation Engineering	11
Structural Engineering	7
Water Resources Engineering	3

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	384
Mechanical Engineering	344
Biomedical Engineering	269
Chemical Engineering	241
Materials Engineering	109
General Engineering	61
Industrial Engineering	52
Operations Research	44
Computer Engineering	43
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	42

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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.