2022 Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Master’s in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Engineering Science is the 208th most popular major in the country with 1,668 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 the Plains States region, there were 33 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great engineering science programs and cost less that 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science in the Plains States Region

#1

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

#1 in overall quality

$25,007 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kansas landed the #1 spot on the list. KU is a large school located in Lawrence, Kansas that handed out 1 masters’s engineering science degrees in 2019-2020.

KU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Engineering Science Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Kansas are $25,007, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of Kansas Engineering Science Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for 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

• *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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