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

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In 2019-2020, 86,730 people earned their degree in engineering technologies, making the major the 19th most popular in the United States. 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 Alabama, there were 3,442 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,567 and $20,093 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 366 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,487 and $41,507 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great engineering technologies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the engineering technologies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in Alabama

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in Alabama

#1

Columbia Southern University

Orange Beach, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$4,035 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in Alabama that were part of this year’s ranking, Columbia Southern University landed the #1 spot on the list. Columbia Southern University is a fairly large school located in Orange Beach, Alabama that handed out 357 masters’s engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Columbia Southern University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering Technologies Master’s Degree Schools in Alabama” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Columbia Southern University are $4,035, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Engineering Technologies at Columbia Southern University

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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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