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2026 Best Value Trasportation Engineering Schools in Illinois
If you want to know which schools deliver the best value for the trasportation engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Best Value Trasportation Engineering Schools
For return on investment in trasportation engineering, no school beat Illinois Institute Of Technology this year. Illinois Institute Of Technology is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago. In-state tuition and fees average $52,202. Typical student debt for trasportation engineering graduates is $26,000. Early-career trasportation engineering graduates make about $75,829. Weighed against typical debt, the earnings make a compelling case for value. The acceptance rate is 55%.
Notes and References
This ranking is produced by College Factual (MF_RANKING_2025), 2026 edition. The methodology weighs the cost of a degree against the earnings graduates go on to achieve, drawn primarily from the U.S. Department of Education (IPEDS and College Scorecard).
Ranking method: College Major Best Value · 1 school evaluated.
*Averages shown above reflect the top 1 ranked 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 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).
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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[Trasportation Engineering](/majors/engineering/civil-engineering/transportation-highway-engineering/) degree programs vary widely in price and payoff across the country. The best values balance affordable tuition against strong post-graduation earnings.
