2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technology in the Great Lakes Region
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Engineering Technology Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 4,500 people earned their degree in engineering technology, making the major the 203rd most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 568 engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 55 engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Technology Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering technology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in engineering technology.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Technology Major in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree engineering technology students.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technology in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lawrence Technological University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Technology Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Lawrence Tech is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Southfield, Michigan. It awarded 5 masters’s engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% 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 Lawrence Technological University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kent State University at Kent. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Technology Major in the Great Lakes Region. Kent State University at Kent is located in Kent, Ohio and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 19 masters’s engineering tech degrees to qualified students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Technology Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in West Lafayette, Indiana, this large public school awarded 22 diplomas to qualified masters’s engineering tech students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.
Read more about Engineering Technology at Purdue
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Technology Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wayne State University landed the #4 spot on the list. Wayne State University is a large public school situated in Detroit, Michigan. It awarded 9 masters’s engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.
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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.
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