<p>Which has a better Civil Engineering bachelors degree?</p>
<p>Neither is ranked in the specialty category, but both are very good overall engineering schools, so you will have a strong degree from either one. I would focus on choosing whatever school you'd like to spend the next 4 years in. </p>
<p>Here are the rankings if you are interested. </p>
<p>Undergraduate engineering specialties:
Civil
(At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)</p>
<ol>
<li>U. of Illinois?Urbana-Champaign </li>
<li>University of California?Berkeley *</li>
<li>Georgia Institute of Technology *</li>
<li>University of Texas?Austin *
Stanford University (CA)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology</li>
<li>Purdue Univ.?West Lafayette (IN)</li>
<li>University of Michigan?Ann Arbor </li>
<li>Cornell University (NY)</li>
<li>Texas A&M Univ.?College Station *</li>
<li>Virginia Tech *</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University (PA)</li>
<li>Northwestern University (IL)</li>
<li>Univ. of Wisconsin?Madison *</li>
<li>Pennsylvania State U.?University Park *</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University (MD)</li>
<li>California Institute of Technology
University of Washington *</li>
<li>University of Colorado?Boulder *
Univ. of Minnesota?Twin Cities *</li>
<li>Univ. of Southern California
Princeton University (NJ)
Duke University (NC)</li>
<li>University of Florida *
Michigan State University *
Clemson University (SC)</li>
</ol>
<p>i think umd's civil engineering is 23rd in one ranking
overall umd is lightly better than uva in engineering.</p>