2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the New England Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Engineering Technologies is the 20th most popular major in the country with 85,188 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, engineering technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $52,350 and had an average of $21,560 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 2,388 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,350 and $20,625 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering technologies. That schools that top this list have a program in engineering technologies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in the New England Region

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University of Bridgeport
Bridgeport, Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Bridgeport. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the New England Region list. UBridgeport is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It awarded 8 doctorate’s engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of Bridgeport Engineering Technologies Report

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Western New England University
Springfield, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western New England University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the New England Region list. Located in Springfield, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 28 degrees to qualified doctorate’s engineering tech students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Engineering Technologies at Western New England

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies

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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