2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid

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 Indiana For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Engineering is the 78th most popular major in the country with 11,925 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $66,152 and had an average of $20,077 in loans still to pay off.

Across Indiana, there were 199 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,400 and $23,406 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 89 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,737 and $39,894 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general engineering programs, but they also 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Indiana (With Aid)

#1

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana

#1 in overall quality

$28,794 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid list. West Lafayette, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering degrees to 46 students in 2019-2020.

Purdue also made our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Indiana” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue are $28,794.

Full Purdue General Engineering Report

#2

Purdue University Northwest

Hammond, Indiana

$11,633 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University Northwest. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Hammond, Indiana, this medium-sized public school handed out 8 degrees to qualified masters’s engineering students in 2019-2020.

Purdue Northwest did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Indiana” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue University Northwest are $11,633, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about General Engineering at Purdue Northwest

#3

Purdue University Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne, Indiana

#2 in overall quality

$14,618 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University Fort Wayne landed the #3 spot on the list. PFW is located in Fort Wayne, Indiana and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 18 masters’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

PFW not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Indiana” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at PFW are $14,618, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Purdue University Fort Wayne General Engineering Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (With Aid)

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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