2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Trasportation Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 119 people earned their degree in trasportation engineering, making the major the 920th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 23 trasportation engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 trasportation engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,944 and $116,843 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality trasportation engineering programs that also have a lower cost than 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 trasportation engineering program at the school. 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 Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Trasportation Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

New York University

New York, New York

#1 in overall quality

$36,892 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New York University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region list. New York, New York is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s transportation engineering degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

NYU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Trasportation Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at New York University are $36,892, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Trasportation Engineering at New York University

#2

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Troy, New York

#1 in overall quality

$58,325 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region list. RPI is a medium-sized school located in Troy, New York that handed out 1 doctorate’s transportation engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region doctor’s degree transportation engineering students list, RPI has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Trasportation Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at RPI are $58,325, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Trasportation 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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