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

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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.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Engineering Science Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in engineering science. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular engineering science programs in the United States.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Engineering Science Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Engineering Science Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular 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 Most Well Attended Engineering Science Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Skysong landed the #1 spot on the list. Scottsdale, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering science degrees to 16 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Engineering Science at ASU - Skysong

2

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#10 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Engineering Science Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Southern Methodist University 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.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Engineering Science at Southern Methodist University

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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.