2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Louisiana

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In 2020-2021, 11,796 people earned their degree in general engineering, making the major the 79th most popular in the United States. 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 Louisiana, there were 168 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,056 and $23,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 65 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,232 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Louisiana” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Louisiana”.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Louisiana

1

Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, Louisiana

#10 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana Tech University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Louisiana list. Louisiana Tech is located in Ruston, Louisiana and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 24 masters’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

Full Louisiana Tech General Engineering Report

2

Southern University and A & M College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#23 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern University and A & M College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Louisiana. Southern University and A & M College is a public institution located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Engineering at Southern University and A & M College

3

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana

#5 overall quality in Louisiana

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Louisiana at Lafayette landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Louisiana at Lafayette is a fairly large school located in Lafayette, Louisiana that handed out 25 masters’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Engineering at University of Louisiana at Lafayette

4

McNeese State University
Lake Charles, Louisiana

#9 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend McNeese State University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Louisiana. McNeese is a medium-sized public school situated in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It awarded 7 masters’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Engineering at McNeese State University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Southeast Region
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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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