2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in North Dakota

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In 2020-2021, 85,188 people earned their degree in engineering technologies, making the major the 20th most popular in the United States. 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 North Dakota, there were 446 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,625 and $14,475 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,776 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in North Dakota” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering technologies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their engineering technologies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in North Dakota

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in North Dakota

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North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Fargo, North Dakota

#1 overall quality in North Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in North Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, North Dakota State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. North Dakota State University is located in Fargo, North Dakota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s engineering tech degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Engineering Technologies at North Dakota State University

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University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

#2 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Dakota. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in North Dakota list. Grand Forks, North Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering tech degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of North Dakota Engineering Technologies Report

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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

• *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.

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