2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Alabama

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Alabama” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Alabama, there were 220 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 220 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,487 and $41,507 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Alabama” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general engineering. 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Alabama

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Alabama

#1

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$19,188 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alabama at Birmingham. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Alabama. Birmingham, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering degrees to 124 students in 2019-2020.

UAB also made our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Alabama” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Alabama at Birmingham are $19,188, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on General Engineering at University of Alabama at Birmingham

#2

University of Alabama in Huntsville

Huntsville, Alabama

#2 in overall quality

$25,386 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alabama in Huntsville. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Alabama. This medium-sized school is located in Huntsville, Alabama, and it awarded 95 masters’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UAH did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Alabama” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UAH are $25,386, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about General Engineering at UAH

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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

• *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.

Credits

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

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