2022 Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering is the 109th most popular major in the country with 7,582 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 465 aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 147 aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,560 and $37,817 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in aerospace and aeronautical engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent aerospace and aeronautical engineering 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 aerospace and aeronautical engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

Utah State University

Logan, Utah

#2 in overall quality

$22,598 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Utah State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region list. This large school is located in Logan, Utah, and it awarded 13 masters’s aerospace engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

USU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at USU are $22,598, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering at USU

#2

University of Colorado Boulder

Boulder, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$32,980 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Boulder. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region. University of Colorado Boulder is a large public school situated in Boulder, Colorado. It awarded 134 masters’s aerospace engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

CU - Boulder also took the #1 spot in our “Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at CU - Boulder are $32,980, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full CU - Boulder Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering 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

• *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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