2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Illinois

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Engineering is the 96th most popular major in the country with 9,018 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Illinois, there were 427 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,317 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Illinois” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general engineering.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Illinois

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Illinois

1

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

#10 overall quality in Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Chicago. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Illinois. UIC is a public institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Engineering at UIC

2

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois

#3 overall quality in Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Illinois list. Champaign, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Great Lakes Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering

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 Rémi Kaupp.