2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Structural Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 332 people earned their degree in structural engineering, making the major the 673rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 41 structural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 structural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in structural engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their structural engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree structural engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Structural Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Lehigh University
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

#12 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lehigh University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 12 diplomas to qualified masters’s structural engineering students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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New York University
New York, New York

#9 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New York University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Structural Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. NYU is located in New York, New York and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 masters’s structural engineering degrees to qualified students.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 more about Structural Engineering at NYU

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Structural Engineering

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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