2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the New England 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 New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 1,454 people earned their degree in engineering science, making the major the 205th most popular in the United States. 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 New England region, there were 406 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,341 and $15,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 107 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

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

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the New England Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science in the New England Region

1

Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#3 overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the New England Region list. Harvard University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It awarded 104 masters’s engineering science degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 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 impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Engineering Science at Harvard University

2

Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire

#6 overall quality in New England

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Dartmouth College landed the #2 spot on the list. Dartmouth is a private not-for-profit institution located in Hanover, New Hampshire. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Engineering Science at Dartmouth College

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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

• *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.