2024 Best General Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region
4Colleges in the New England Region
577Master's Degrees
If you pursue a master's degree in general engineering, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #67 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 4 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 577 master's degrees in general engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great General Engineering School for Your Master's Degree
The engineering master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general engineering students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general engineering related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general engineering students working on their master's degree.
The engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study General Engineering in the New England Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in general engineering.
Top New England Region Schools for a Master's in Engineering
Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in general engineering needs to take a look at Brown University. Located in the city of Providence, Brown is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in general engineering from Brown University
One of 2 majors within the General Engineering area of study, General Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.
Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).