Civil engineering at Stony Brook
Stony Brook graduates about 36 civil engineering majors a year. That puts it 51st of 255 schools we score for civil engineering, a strong program at 74 out of 100. Graduates in the major earn a median $93,000 four years out, 1.09× what the same major pays nationally. Research spending in the field runs about $5 million a year, a rough guide to how many labs and projects undergraduates can join.
Where civil engineering happens
Buildings on campus that fit the field: Light Engineering, New Engineering Building, Heavy Engineering, Engineering, Bioengineering.
Named buildings on the campus map: Academic 58 · Dorm 29 · Student housing 27 · Dining 8 · Athletics 4 · Library 1.
Nearby in the civil engineering ranking
Other strong majors at Stony Brook
- Health & pre-med fields 92 · #5
- Computer science 91 · #38
- Nursing 91 · #4
- Sociology & anthropology 89 · #48
- Engineering (all) 87 · #59
- Journalism 87 · #18
How the score works
The score is out of 100 and compares Stony Brook 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.