2022 Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Chemical Engineering is the 53rd most popular major in the country with 13,314 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across District of Columbia, there were 22 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,525 and $61,455 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent chemical 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 chemical engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Chemical Engineering in District of Columbia

#1

Howard University

Washington, District of Columbia

#1 in overall quality

$34,224 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Howard University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia. Howard University is a fairly large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 3 masters’s chem eng degrees in 2019-2020.

Howard did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Chemical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Howard University are $34,224.

Read more about Chemical Engineering at Howard

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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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