2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering-Related Fields in Washington

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Engineering-Related Fields is the 112th most popular major in the country with 6,736 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, engineering-related fields graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $77,404 and had an average of $26,200 in loans still to pay off.

Across Washington, there were 52 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $111,957 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,852 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in Washington” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in engineering-related fields. That schools that top this list have a program in engineering-related fields in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in Washington

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in Washington”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering-Related Fields in Washington

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Saint Martin's University
Lacey, Washington

#17 overall quality in Washington

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in Washington that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Martin’s University landed the #1 spot on the list. Lacey, Washington is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s engineering-related fields degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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 more about Engineering-Related Fields at Saint Martin’s

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Washington State University
Pullman, Washington

#3 overall quality in Washington

$111,957 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in Washington list. Located in Pullman, Washington, this large public school handed out 20 diplomas to qualified masters’s engineering-related fields students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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

• *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.