Civil engineering at Cal Poly SLO
Cal Poly SLO graduates about 139 civil engineering majors a year, 3% of its graduating class. That puts it 41st of 255 schools we score for civil engineering, a strong program at 77 out of 100. Graduates in the major earn a median $101,000 four years out, 1.19× what the same major pays nationally. Research spending in the field runs about $2 million a year, a rough guide to how many labs and projects undergraduates can join.
Around Cal Poly SLO
Where civil engineering happens
Buildings on campus that fit the field: Engineering East, Engineering, Engineering West Addition, Engineering IV, Brown Engineering, Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering, Engineering South, Construction Innovations Center, Engineering West: City and Regional Planning, Engineering West: Architectural Engineering.
Named buildings on the campus map: Academic 108 · Dorm 49 · Athletics 8 · Student housing 8 · Arts 7 · Dining 4.
Nearby in the civil engineering ranking
Other strong majors at Cal Poly SLO
- Architecture 93 · #3
- Math & statistics 92 · #29
- English & writing 89 · #35
- Physics & astronomy 89 · #41
- Philosophy & religion 89 · #38
- Computer science 88 · #57
How the score works
The score is out of 100 and compares Cal Poly SLO with every school we score in civil engineering. It weighs what graduates earn four years out against the same major nationally (25%), research spending in the field (20%, NSF), how many undergraduate courses the department lists (20%), the student body's test scores (20%) and the size of the program (15%, capped so size alone can't win). 80+ is a standout program, 65+ strong, 45+ solid. Sources: US Department of Education (College Scorecard, IPEDS), NSF HERD, each school's current course catalog, OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia Commons.