2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 4,676 people earned their degree in general engineering technology, making the major the 156th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, general engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $53,419 and had an average of $23,567 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 2,397 general engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,950 and $23,007 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 general engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in general engineering technology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general engineering technology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 6 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology in the Southeast Region

1

Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Murray State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Murray, Kentucky, this medium-sized public school awarded 8 diplomas to qualified masters’s engineering tech students in 2020-2021.

Full Murray State General Engineering Technology Report

2

East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Tennessee State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region list. Johnson City, Tennessee is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering tech degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

Full ETSU General Engineering Technology Report

3

Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kennesaw State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Kennesaw, Georgia, and it awarded 8 masters’s engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Engineering Technology at Kennesaw State University

4

Austin Peay State University
Clarksville, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Austin Peay State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Clarksville, Tennessee, and it awarded 3 masters’s engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Austin Peay State University General Engineering Technology Report

5

University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Memphis landed the #5 spot on the list. UofM is a large school located in Memphis, Tennessee that handed out 1 masters’s engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Engineering Technology at UofM

6

Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, North Carolina

Western Carolina University landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region ranking. WCU is a fairly large public school situated in Cullowhee, North Carolina. It awarded 63 masters’s engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Full WCU General Engineering Technology Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology

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.

Credits

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