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2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Trasportation Engineering

8 Ranked Colleges
98 Degrees Awarded
$40,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master's

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 Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in trasportation engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent trasportation engineering programs, but they also cost less that 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree transportation engineering students.

Top 8 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Trasportation Engineering

#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 list. UW Seattle is a public institution located in Seattle, Washington. The school has a large population, and it awarded 45 masters’s degrees 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. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UW Seattle are $30,294.

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#4 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Davis landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Davis, California, this large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s transportation engineering students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our master’s degree transportation engineering students list, UC Davis has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of California - Davis are $28,700, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#6 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Jersey Institute of Technology. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s. New Jersey Institute of Technology is a public institution located in Newark, New Jersey. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees 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.

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#8 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Illinois Institute of Technology. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s list. This medium-sized school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 9 masters’s transportation engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Illinois Tech, the school also landed the #8 spot in our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Illinois Tech are $30,695, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#5

New York University

New York, New York
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New York University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s. New York University is a large school located in New York, New York that handed out 11 masters’s transportation engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at NYU, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at NYU are $36,892, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#6

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California
#2 in overall quality

With a ranking of #6, University of Southern California did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s list. USC is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Los Angeles, California. It awarded 12 masters’s transportation engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our master’s degree transportation engineering students list, USC has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Southern California are $48,715, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#7

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts
#1 in overall quality

Massachusetts Institute of Technology did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s ranking, coming in at #7. 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.

In addition to being on our master’s degree transportation engineering students list, MIT has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Massachusetts Institute of Technology are $56,719, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#7 in overall quality

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s ranking. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Troy, New York. It awarded 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. Average graduate tuition and fees at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are $58,325, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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%.

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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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