2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region

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Engineering Technology (Other) is the 210th most popular major in the country with 1,768 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, engineering technology (other) graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $57,018 and had an average of $21,991 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 90 engineering technology (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,549 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 engineering technology (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in engineering technology (other). That schools that top this list have a program in engineering technology (other) in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technology (Other) in the Southwest Region

1

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

$61,549 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region. ASU - Tempe is located in Tempe, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 masters’s other engineering tech degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read more about Engineering Technology (Other) at ASU - Tempe

2

Arizona State University - Skysong
Scottsdale, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

$61,549 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Skysong. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Tech Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Scottsdale, Arizona, and it awarded 5 masters’s other engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Engineering Technology (Other) at ASU - Skysong

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technology (Other)

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.