2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Far Western US Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Engineering Science is the 342nd most popular major in the country with 1,454 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 80 general engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 general engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general engineering science. That schools that top this list have a program in general engineering science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

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

1

Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sonoma State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Far Western US Region. Rohnert Park, California is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering science degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full SSU General Engineering Science Report

2

Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Naval Postgraduate School. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Far Western US Region. Naval Postgraduate School is a small school located in Monterey, California that handed out 0 masters’s engineering science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Engineering Science at Naval Postgraduate School

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Science

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nicolás Pérez.