2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in Massachusetts

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Engineering is the 83rd most popular major in the country with 9,411 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Massachusetts, there were 499 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 265 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,240 and $41,137 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general 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 general engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts master’s degree engineering students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in Massachusetts

#1

Northeastern University

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$25,558 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northeastern University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $30-$48k list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s engineering degrees to 265 students in 2019-2020.

Northeastern also made our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Northeastern University are $25,558, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on General Engineering at Northeastern University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $30-$48k)

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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Rémi Kaupp.

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