2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region

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

Across the Far Western US region, there were 65 trasportation engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 61 trasportation engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,319 and $48,880 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in trasportation engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great trasportation engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the trasportation engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Trasportation Engineering in the Far Western US Region

#1

University of Washington - Seattle Campus

Seattle, Washington

#2 in overall quality

$30,294 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

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 in the Far Western US Region list. UW Seattle is a large school located in Seattle, Washington that handed out 45 masters’s transportation engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UW Seattle, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Washington - Seattle Campus are $30,294, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Trasportation Engineering at UW Seattle

#2

University of California - Davis

Davis, California

#3 in overall quality

$28,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Davis landed the #2 spot on the list. UC Davis is located in Davis, California and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 masters’s transportation engineering degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UC Davis, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of California - Davis are $28,700, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Trasportation Engineering at University of California - Davis

#3

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California

#1 in overall quality

$48,715 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern California. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Far Western US Region. Los Angeles, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s transportation engineering degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

USC also made our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Southern California are $48,715, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of Southern California 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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