2022 Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 New Jersey” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Engineering Technologies is the 19th most popular major in the country with 86,730 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, engineering technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $46,894 and had an average of $21,178 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Jersey, there were 1,262 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,877 and $25,973 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 165 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,690 and $39,821 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering technologies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent engineering technologies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the engineering technologies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in New Jersey

#1

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Newark, New Jersey

#2 in overall quality

$33,744 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Jersey Institute of Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey. Newark, New Jersey is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering tech degrees to 69 students in 2019-2020.

NJIT also took the #2 spot in our “Best Engineering Technologies Master’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at New Jersey Institute of Technology are $33,744, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Engineering Technologies at NJIT

#2

Stevens Institute of Technology

Hoboken, New Jersey

#1 in overall quality

$38,876 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey that were part of this year’s ranking, Stevens Institute of Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. Stevens is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Hoboken, New Jersey. It awarded 55 masters’s engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Stevens not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Engineering Technologies Master’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Stevens Institute of Technology are $38,876, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Engineering Technologies at Stevens Institute of Technology

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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

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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