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2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid

9 Ranked Colleges
98 Degrees Awarded
$38,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master's For Those Getting Aid

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 Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Trasportation Engineering is the 920th most popular major in the country with 119 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 98 trasportation engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 9 colleges that offered a degree in trasportation engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality trasportation engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the trasportation engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid.

Top 9 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Trasportation Engineering (With Aid)

#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid list. Seattle, Washington is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s transportation engineering degrees to 45 students in 2019-2020.

UW Seattle did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Washington - Seattle Campus are $30,294, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of Washington - Seattle Campus Trasportation Engineering Report

#2

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid list. Massachusetts Institute of Technology is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 11 masters’s transportation engineering degrees to qualified students.

MIT not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at MIT are $56,719.

Full Massachusetts Institute of Technology Trasportation Engineering Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nevada - Las Vegas. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid list. UNLV is located in Las Vegas, Nevada and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 masters’s transportation engineering degrees to qualified students.

UNLV also made our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Nevada - Las Vegas are $21,962, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Trasportation Engineering at UNLV

#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - Davis. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid. Davis, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s transportation engineering degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

UC Davis also made our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #4. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UC Davis are $28,700.

Read more about Trasportation Engineering at UC Davis

#6 in overall quality

Out of the 9 schools in the Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, New Jersey Institute of Technology landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Newark, New Jersey, this fairly large public school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified masters’s transportation engineering students in 2019-2020.

NJIT also took the #6 spot in our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at New Jersey Institute of Technology are $33,744, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Trasportation Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology

#8 in overall quality

Illinois Institute of Technology came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid ranking. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s transportation engineering degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

Illinois Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #8 on our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Illinois Tech are $30,695, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Illinois Tech Trasportation Engineering Report

#7

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California
#2 in overall quality

University of Southern California landed the #7 spot on the 2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid ranking. USC is a large school located in Los Angeles, California that handed out 12 masters’s transportation engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

USC also took the #2 spot in our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Southern California are $48,715, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Trasportation Engineering at USC

#7 in overall quality

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute landed the #8 spot on the 2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid ranking. RPI is a medium-sized school located in Troy, New York that handed out 2 masters’s transportation engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

RPI also took the #7 spot in our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are $58,325.

Read full report on Trasportation Engineering at RPI

#9

New York University

New York, New York
#5 in overall quality

New York University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid ranking, coming in at #9. Located in New York, New York, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 11 degrees to qualified masters’s transportation engineering students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our master’s degree transportation engineering students with aid list, NYU has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at NYU are $36,892.

Read more about Trasportation Engineering at NYU

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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