2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Design Engineering Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Drafting & Design Engineering Technology is the 151st most popular major in the country with 8,964 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, drafting and design engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $43,263 and had an average of $17,275 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 612 drafting and design engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,781 and $20,417 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 drafting and design engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Design Engineering Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in drafting and design engineering technology. That schools that top this list have a program in drafting and design engineering technology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Design Engineering Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Design Engineering Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Drafting & Design Engineering Technology in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#2 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Carnegie Mellon University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Design Engineering Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 9 diplomas to qualified masters’s design engineering tech students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Carnegie Mellon Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Report

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Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Top 15% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Drexel University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Design Engineering Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s design engineering tech degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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SUNY New Paltz
New Paltz, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY New Paltz. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Design Engineering Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in New Paltz, New York, this medium-sized public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s design engineering tech students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Drafting & Design Engineering Technology

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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