2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technology

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In 2020-2021, 4,500 people earned their degree in engineering technology, making the major the 203rd most popular in the United States.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,260 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Technology Major” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering technology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their engineering technology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Technology Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Technology Major”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technology

1

Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Technology Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Michigan University landed the #1 spot on the list. Eastern Michigan University is a fairly large school located in Ypsilanti, Michigan that handed out 8 doctorate’s engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Engineering Technology at Eastern Michigan University

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University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado

Top 25% overall quality in United States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Technology Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado Boulder landed the #2 spot on the list. Boulder, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s engineering tech degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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 Technology at University of Colorado Boulder

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.

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