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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Indiana” ranking.

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.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Indiana” 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Indiana

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

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

#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 list. Purdue University - Main Campus is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 46 masters’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

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

Read more about General Engineering at Purdue

#2

Purdue University Fort Wayne

Fort Wayne, Indiana

#2 in overall quality

$14,618 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University Fort Wayne. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Indiana. PFW is a medium-sized school located in Fort Wayne, Indiana that handed out 18 masters’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

PFW also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Indiana” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue University Fort Wayne are $14,618.

Read more about General Engineering at PFW

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

• *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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