2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Water Resources Engineering in the Far Western US Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Water Resources Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 71 people earned their degree in water resources engineering, making the major the 1072nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 7 water resources engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 water resources engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Water Resources Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in water resources engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their water resources engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Water Resources Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Water Resources Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Water Resources Engineering in the Far Western US Region

1

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

#4 overall quality in Far Western US

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Water Resources Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern California landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Los Angeles, California, and it awarded 3 masters’s water resources engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

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. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full USC Water Resources Engineering Report

2

Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Water Resources Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oregon State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Corvallis, Oregon is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s water resources engineering degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, 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 85%.

Read more about Water Resources Engineering at Oregon State

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Water Resources 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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