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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering-Related Fields Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 138 people earned their degree in other engineering-related fields, making the major the 897th most popular in the United States.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 other engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering-Related Fields Major” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in other engineering-related fields. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in other engineering-related fields.
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The other engineering-related fields school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering-Related Fields Major”.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering-Related Fields Major”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering-Related Fields Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Art Center College of Design landed the #1 spot on the list. Pasadena, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s other engineering-related fields degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering-Related Fields Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Carnegie Mellon University landed the #2 spot on the list. Carnegie Mellon is a private not-for-profit institution located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 12 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
Read more about Other Engineering-Related Fields at Carnegie Mellon
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Methodist University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering-Related Fields Major. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s other engineering-related fields degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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%.
Read full report on Other Engineering-Related Fields at Southern Methodist University
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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
- *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.