2022 Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Doctorate in California

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Doctorate in California” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,668 people earned their degree in engineering science, making the major the 208th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, engineering science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $60,800 and had an average of $20,111 in loans still to pay off.

Across California, there were 119 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,100 and $18,476 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,544 and $133,402 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality engineering science programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the engineering science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Doctorate in California

The colleges and universities below are the best for california doctor’s degree engineering science students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science in California

#1

University of California - San Diego

La Jolla, California

#1 in overall quality

$28,631 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - San Diego. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Doctorate in California list. UCSD is a public institution located in La Jolla, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5 doctorate’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UCSD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Engineering Science Doctor’s Degree Schools in California” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of California - San Diego are $28,631, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Engineering Science at University of California - San Diego

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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.

Credits

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

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