Civil Engineering

Civil engineers design and supervise the construction of roads, buildings, airports, tunnels, dams, bridges, and water supply and sewage systems. They must consider many factors in the design process from the construction costs and expected lifetime of a project to government regulations and potential environmental hazards.

The starting salary for a civil engineer with a bachelor's degree is around $36,500. the average salary for all engineers is $81,180.

278,400 civil engineers were employed as of 2008. Civil engineering job growth is expected to encounter a spurt of 24% over this decade. This is because there is a need to improve the nation's infrastructure and the population growth.Civil engineers will need to develop and expand water supply, transportation, and pollution control systems.

The top 3 schools for civil engineering are

1)University of California–Berkeley
2)University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign
3)Georgia Institute of Technology