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2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid

7 Ranked Colleges
184 Degrees Awarded
$29,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master's in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region 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 the Rocky Mountains region, there were 501 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,350 and $26,638 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 184 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,560 and $37,817 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 7 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 7 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, Colorado

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid list. Colorado Springs, Colorado is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering degrees to 26 students in 2019-2020.

UCCS did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs are $25,774.

Read more about General Engineering at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid. Colorado State University - Fort Collins is located in Fort Collins, Colorado and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 73 masters’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

Colorado State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Colorado State are $28,055, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on General Engineering at Colorado State University - Fort Collins

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado Boulder landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Colorado Boulder is a public institution located in Boulder, Colorado. The school has a large population, and it awarded 68 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

CU - Boulder did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Colorado Boulder are $32,980, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full CU - Boulder General Engineering Report

#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Montana Technological University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid. Montana Technological University is located in Butte, Montana and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 masters’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

Montana Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Montana Tech are $19,429, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid. University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus is a large public school situated in Denver, Colorado. It awarded 13 masters’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our rocky mountains region master’s degree engineering students with aid list, CU Anschutz has also earned the #7 rank in our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at CU Anschutz are $23,915, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full CU Anschutz General Engineering Report

#6

Montana State University

Bozeman, Montana
#6 in overall quality

Montana State University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid ranking. This fairly large school is located in Bozeman, Montana, and it awarded 1 masters’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

MSU Bozeman not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #6 on our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at MSU Bozeman are $21,446.

Read more about General Engineering at MSU Bozeman

#7

University of Denver

Denver, Colorado
#4 in overall quality

University of Denver came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid ranking. DU is a fairly large school located in Denver, Colorado that handed out 1 masters’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

DU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Denver are $52,899, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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.

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