2022 Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina

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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 North Carolina, there were 229 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $84,200 and $45,750 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 200 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,088 and $45,388 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering-related fields. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent engineering-related fields programs, but they also 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-related fields program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina

The colleges and universities below are the best for north carolina master’s degree engineering-related fields students.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering-Related Fields in North Carolina

#1

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Charlotte, North Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$21,055 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Charlotte. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina list. This large school is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, and it awarded 18 masters’s engineering-related fields degrees in 2019-2020.

UNC Charlotte did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Engineering-Related Fields Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of North Carolina at Charlotte are $21,055.

Read more about Engineering-Related Fields at University of North Carolina at Charlotte

#2

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$59,140 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$97,604 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina list. Duke is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Durham, North Carolina. It awarded 175 masters’s engineering-related fields degrees in 2019-2020.

Duke also made our “Best Engineering-Related Fields Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Duke are $59,140, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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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