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Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Vincennes University receive $25,000 grand prizes
NCEES is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 NCEES Surveying Education Award. This annual award recognizes surveying programs that best reflect the organization’s mission to advance licensure for surveyors in order to safeguard the health, safety, and welfare of the public.
NCEES awarded the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Geospatial Science program the $25,000 grand prize in the four-year program category. The university delivers core geospatial science coursework to high school students via dual enrollment. The award jury praised the program for offering the most transformational and replicable model in the competition.
NCEES awarded the Vincennes University Surveying Technology program the $25,000 grand prize in the two-year program category. The university has developed a tiered pipeline for bringing students into the surveying profession and providing them with the necessary tools to become professionally licensed. The award jury praised the program for transforming from a narrow, traditional pathway to a comprehensive hub serving a wider student population
The jury selected four additional winners to receive the following awards:
Four-year programs
$15,000 winners
East Tennessee State University
Surveying and Mapping Science program
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Surveying Engineering Technology program
$10,000 winners
Ferris State University
Surveying Engineering program
Oregon Institute of Technology
Geomatics program
The award jury of NCEES members and representatives from surveying societies met virtually June 4, 2026, to select the winners. The prizes were awarded to qualifying programs to assist with each program’s continued efforts to promote the importance and value of surveying licensure.
Profiles of the winning programs will be posted as available at ncees.org/surveyingaward.