2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Southwest 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 Southwest region, there were 173 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $92,813 and $21,177 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

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

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

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

1

Arizona State University - Skysong
Scottsdale, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

$109,671 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Skysong landed the #1 spot on the list. ASU - Skysong is a large school located in Scottsdale, Arizona that handed out 16 masters’s engineering science degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Arizona State University - Skysong Engineering Science Report

2

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#10 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #2 spot on the list. SMU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Dallas, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Read full report on Engineering Science at SMU

• 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.