2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Design

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Engineering Design Schools for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Engineering Design is the 988th most popular major in the country with 90 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

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.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great engineering design programs and cost less that 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Engineering Design Schools for a Master’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Engineering Design Schools for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Design Schools for a Master’s.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Design

#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 that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pennsylvania landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 18 degrees to qualified masters’s engineering design students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UPenn, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering Design Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Pennsylvania are $41,760, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Engineering Design at University of Pennsylvania

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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