<p>I was just wondering what Public schools excel in Civil Engineering. And on a more personal note, which of those schools are the most cost effective to someone who lives in Texas, with little to no Need-based financial aid.</p>
<p>UT-Austin comes to mind immediately.</p>
<p>Yea, UT, A&M, TT. They’re great, but I guess my question really should be what Schools outside of Texas are good(In Civil Eng. and cost).</p>
<p>First, TT is not what I would consider great. UT and A&M are definitely great though.</p>
<p>Outside of Texas, there are a ton of good ones. UIUC, Berkeley, Purdue, Michigan, Georgia Tech… That is far from an exhaustive list. This is one instance when I actually WILL recommend just looking at the USNWR rankings just to get an idea of what schools are generally considered to be good. They certainly aren’t perfect or a good way to decide a school, but it isn’t a bad way just to look at what schools are generally considered good in a discipline.</p>
<p>Out of all that I mentioned, Purdue is probably the cheapest for OoS.</p>
<p>Ok Thanks. Yeah and after reading over many CC posts (even though this is #5 for me) I was leery of going straight to USNWR, but it’s good to hear that it does have merit.</p>
<p>Clemson last year was top 20 for CE</p>
<p>As far as being cost effective, good luck getting that from an out of state institution. You have two really good schools (UT and A&M) that will give a great education on top of being much cheaper. What more could you ask for?</p>
<p>Out of Texas? SUNY Buffalo for CE…</p>
<p>If you’re going to try for out of state, you should try for privates with merit aid. Some private schools will offer much more merit money than oos public schools</p>
<p>What do you define as “cost effective”? If you are a Texas resident and go to another state’s public university you will be giving up cost effective (what you would pay as a resident of Texas for a Texas university) and moving in to the expensive (what you pay as a non-resident in another state). You can potentially get some merit aid with other state’s publics but you better have extremely high stats (for example, UIUC, ranked No. 6 in engineering overall and No.1 in some programs such as civil and materials engineering often gives merit aid equalling the out-of-state portion of tuition IF, for example, you are in the top 1% of those who apply to UIUC. You can get similar at some other state schools but you need very high stats.</p>
<p>Why would you go anywhere else when you could go to UT-Austin as an in-state resident?? Besides the excellent education (the CE department is one of the highest ranked in the country), you’ll make great connections that will help you get a job. The professors often recommend their students for jobs all over the state.</p>
<p>Perhaps he just wants to get out of Texas?</p>