2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology (Income $30-$48k) in the Great Lakes Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Engineering Technology is the 155th most popular major in the country with 4,195 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $49,903 and had an average of $20,609 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 628 general engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,610 and $21,112 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 50 general engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in general engineering technology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general engineering technology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general engineering technology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology (Income $30-$48k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana

#1 in overall quality

$28,794 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$80,152 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Purdue is a large school located in West Lafayette, Indiana that handed out 25 masters’s engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Purdue, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue are $28,794, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about General Engineering Technology at Purdue University - Main Campus

#2

Wayne State University

Detroit, Michigan

$37,215 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wayne State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Located in Detroit, Michigan, this large public school awarded 7 degrees to qualified masters’s engineering tech students in 2019-2020.

Wayne State also made our “Best General Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at Wayne State University are $37,215, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#3

Kent State University at Kent

Kent, Ohio

#2 in overall quality

$21,952 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kent State University at Kent. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $30-$48k. This large school is located in Kent, Ohio, and it awarded 14 masters’s engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Kent State also made our “Best General Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #2. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Kent State are $21,952.

Read more about General Engineering Technology at Kent State University at Kent

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology (Income $30-$48k)

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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