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2022 Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region

5 Ranked Colleges
224 Degrees Awarded
$28,800 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Master's in the New England Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Engineering-Related Fields is the 120th most popular major in the country with 6,319 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, engineering-related fields graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $73,026 and had an average of $26,903 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 240 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $98,500 and $25,324 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 224 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,606 and $42,101 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in engineering-related fields. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great engineering-related fields programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the engineering-related fields program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree engineering-related fields students.

#1

New England Institute of Technology

East Greenwich, Rhode Island
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New England Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region list. New England Tech is located in East Greenwich, Rhode Island and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 14 masters’s engineering-related fields degrees to qualified students.

New England Tech also made our “Best Engineering-Related Fields Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #4. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at New England Institute of Technology are $14,205.

Full New England Institute of Technology Engineering-Related Fields Report

#2

Massachusetts Maritime Academy

Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Massachusetts Maritime Academy. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region list. Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering-related fields degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our new england region master’s degree engineering-related fields students list, Maritime has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Engineering-Related Fields Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Maritime are $17,372, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#3

Western New England University

Springfield, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western New England University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region list. Western New England University is located in Springfield, Massachusetts and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 15 masters’s engineering-related fields degrees to qualified students.

Western New England also took the #2 spot in our “Best Engineering-Related Fields Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Western New England are $25,812.

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#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts - Lowell landed the #4 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Lowell, Massachusetts, and it awarded 37 masters’s engineering-related fields degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our new england region master’s degree engineering-related fields students list, UMass Lowell has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Engineering-Related Fields Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Massachusetts - Lowell are $26,990, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#5

Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tufts University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region list. Located in Medford, Massachusetts, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 86 degrees to qualified masters’s engineering-related fields students in 2019-2020.

Tufts not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Engineering-Related Fields Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Tufts University are $55,168.

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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

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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