2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Applied Engineering

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 “Best Value Applied Engineering Schools for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

With 284 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, applied engineering is the most popular major in the United States.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 83 applied engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Applied Engineering Schools for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in applied engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great applied engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the applied engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Applied Engineering Schools for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Applied Engineering Schools for a Master’s.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Applied Engineering

#1

University of Colorado Boulder

Boulder, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$32,980 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Boulder. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Applied Engineering Schools for a Master’s. University of Colorado Boulder is a large school located in Boulder, Colorado that handed out 68 masters’s applied engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

CU - Boulder also took the #1 spot in our “Best Applied Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at CU - Boulder are $32,980.

Read more about Applied Engineering at CU - Boulder

#2

Georgia Southern University

Statesboro, Georgia

#2 in overall quality

$22,004 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Southern University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Applied Engineering Schools for a Master’s list. GaSou is a public institution located in Statesboro, Georgia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 15 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

GaSou also took the #2 spot in our “Best Applied Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at GaSou are $22,004.

Read more about Applied Engineering at Georgia Southern University

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.

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