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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Engineering Science is the 205th most popular major in the country with 1,454 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, engineering science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $76,473 and had an average of $22,601 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 80 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,382 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in engineering science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in engineering science.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree engineering science students.

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

1

Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, California

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Sonoma State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Sonoma State University is located in Rohnert Park, California and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 masters’s engineering science degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Engineering Science at SSU

2

Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Naval Postgraduate School. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Far Western US Region list. Naval Postgraduate School is a small school located in Monterey, California that handed out 0 masters’s engineering science degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Naval Postgraduate School Engineering Science Report

• Most Focused 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

• *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.