2022 Best Value Engineering Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Engineering Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 90 people earned their degree in engineering design, making the major the 988th most popular in the United States.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 74 engineering design graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality engineering design programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the engineering design program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Engineering Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree engineering design students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Design (Income $0-$30k)

#1

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$41,760 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering Design Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pennsylvania landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Pennsylvania is a private not-for-profit institution located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school has a large population, and it awarded 18 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UPenn not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Engineering Design Master’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Pennsylvania are $41,760, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Engineering Design at UPenn

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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