by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Wisconsin” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Engineering is the 79th most popular major in the country with 11,796 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,873 and had an average of $20,557 in loans still to pay off.
Across Wisconsin, there were 211 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $91,459 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 165 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,134 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Wisconsin” ranking analyzed 4 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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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Wisconsin”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Platteville. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Wisconsin list. Located in Platteville, Wisconsin, this medium-sized public school handed out 44 degrees to qualified masters’s engineering students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Wisconsin that were part of this year’s ranking, Milwaukee School of Engineering landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 7 degrees to qualified masters’s engineering students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Wisconsin list. UWM is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 59 masters’s engineering degrees to qualified students.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Wisconsin that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the #4 spot on the list. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering degrees to 55 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.
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