All top Civil Engineering programs in the US require a very high GRE quant score – in the upper 160’s. However, the GRE verbal score requirement is around 154 out of 170.
Work hard on getting a high quant score.
There are no minimum GRE scores required for admissions to most Civil Eng programs. However, the average scores of the students admitted are:
- 164+ in Quantitative
- 150+ in Verbal
- 4+ in Analytical Writing
Ideal GRE score for Civil Engineering?
CALTECH has the highest GRE score, with an average quant score of 169.
The University of New Mexico has a very low average GRE quant score requirement at 145.
In the top 50 programs, the minimum average is 160 on quant at Colorado School of Mines Golden.
But needless to say that all for top programs, the average GRE Quant score requirement is 164+.
Here is the data for the top 120 Civil Engineering programs in the US.
Rank Name Average GRE (Quant Score)
1 University of California—?Berkeley Berkeley, CA 165
2 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 164
3 University of Illinois—?Urbana-?Champaign Urbana, IL 166
4 Stanford University Stanford, CA 167
5 University of Texas—?Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX 165
6 Purdue University—?West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN 164
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 166
8 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 162
9 University of Michigan—?Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI 166
10 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 166
11 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 165
12 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 169
13 Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston, IL 166
14 Texas A&M University—?College Station College Station, TX 164
15 University of California—?Davis Davis, CA 163
16 University of Washington Seattle, WA 163
17 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 164
18 University of California—?Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA 166
19 University of California—?San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA 166
20 University of Wisconsin—?Madison Madison, WI 164
21 Pennsylvania State University—?University Park University Park, PA 163
22 Princeton University Princeton, NJ 167
23 University of Colorado—?Boulder Boulder, CO 162
24 University of Minnesota—?Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN 164
25 Lehigh University (Rossin) Bethlehem, PA 165
26 Rice University (Brown) Houston, TX 166
27 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 163
28 University of Maryland—?College Park (Clark) College Park, MD 164
29 University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA 166
30 Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY 167
31 Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) Baltimore, MD 166
32 University at Buffalo—?SUNY Buffalo, NY 162
33 Arizona State University (Fulton) Tempe, AZ 162
34 Duke University (Pratt) Durham, NC 164
35 University of California—?Irvine (Samueli) Irvine, CA 164
36 Iowa State University Ames, IA 167
37 Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 162
38 Northeastern University Boston, MA 162
39 Ohio State University Columbus, OH 164
40 Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO 160
41 Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 167
42 Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 160
43 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 164
44 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 162
45 Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 160
46 University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 161
47 University of Massachusetts—?Amherst Amherst, MA 163
48 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 163
49 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 164
50 University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 161
51 University of Tennessee—?Knoxville (Tickle) Knoxville, TN 160
52 Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 163
53 Washington State University Pullman, WA 161
54 Auburn University (Ginn) Auburn, AL 163
55 Clemson University Clemson, SC 158
56 Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 162
57 Missouri University of Science & Technology Rolla, MO 156
58 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—?New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ 163
59 Tufts University Medford, MA 162
60 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 164
61 Louisiana State University—?Baton Rouge Baton Rouge, LA 159
62 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 163
63 University of Delaware Newark, DE 169
64 University of Houston (Cullen) Houston, TX 161
65 University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 161
66 University of Nebraska—?Lincoln Lincoln, NE 161
67 University of Nevada—?Reno Reno, NV 162
68 University of Oklahoma Norman, OK 161
69 University of Pittsburgh (Swanson) Pittsburgh, PA 162
70 Clarkson University Potsdam, NY 162
71 George Mason University (Volgenau) Fairfax, VA 159
72 Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 162
73 Texas Tech University (Whitacre) Lubbock, TX 159
74 University of Illinois—?Chicago Chicago, IL 160
75 University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 161
77 Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 162
78 University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 160
79 University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 160
80 University of Missouri Columbia, MO 161
81 University of Vermont Burlington, VT 162
82 Brigham Young University (Fulton) Provo, UT 162
83 George Washington University Washington, DC 163
84 Illinois Institute of Technology (Armour) Chicago, IL 160
85 Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK 160
86 University of Arkansas—?Fayetteville Fayetteville, AR 159
87 University of Central Florida Orlando, FL 160
88 University of Maine Orono, ME 157
89 University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 160
90 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 145
91 University of North Carolina—?Charlotte (Lee) Charlotte, NC 152
92 University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 156
93 University of Texas—?Arlington Arlington, TX 158
94 Florida International University Miami, FL 156
95 Marquette University Milwaukee, WI 159
96 New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ 159
97 Stevens Institute of Technology (Schaefer) Hoboken, NJ 161
98 University of Miami Coral Gables, FL 159
100 University of South Florida Tampa, FL 158
101 West Virginia University (Statler) Morgantown, WV 157
102 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA 164
103 CUNY—?City College (Grove) New York, NY 157
104 Montana State University Bozeman, MT 158
105 New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 157
106 New York University (Tandon) Brooklyn, NY 164
108 San Diego State University San Diego, CA 157
109 South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, SD 158
110 Temple University Philadelphia, PA 159
112 University of Mississippi University, MS 156
113 University of Nevada—?Las Vegas (Hughes) Las Vegas, NV 157
114 University of Wisconsin—?Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 158
115 University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 161
116 Mississippi State University (Bagley) Mississippi State, MS 158
117 North Dakota State University Fargo, ND 151
118 Ohio University (Russ) Athens, OH 161
119 Stony Brook University—?SUNY Stony Brook, NY 165
120 University of Akron Akron, OH 160
121 University of Alabama—?Huntsville Huntsville, AL 157
123 University of Louisville (Speed) Louisville, KY 157
124 University of Massachusetts—?Lowell (Francis) Lowell, MA 158
125 University of North Dakota Grand Forks, ND 150