2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Georgia

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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 Georgia, there were 179 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,626 and $25,416 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,186 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Georgia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in general engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

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

1

Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, Georgia

#7 overall quality in Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Southern University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Georgia list. GaSou is a public institution located in Statesboro, Georgia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Engineering at Georgia Southern University

2

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Georgia list. UGA is located in Athens, Georgia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 masters’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

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 low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.

Full University of Georgia General Engineering Report

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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

• *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

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