2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Washington

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Washington for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Washington, there were 39 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,445 and $27,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,852 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Washington for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful general engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Washington for a Master’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Washington

1

Washington State University
Pullman, Washington

#3 overall quality in Washington

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Washington for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Wazzu is a large public school situated in Pullman, Washington. It awarded 4 masters’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% 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%.

Read more about General Engineering at Washington State University

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University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

#1 overall quality in Washington

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Washington for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Washington - Seattle Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Seattle, Washington is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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 93%.

Full UW Seattle 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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Rémi Kaupp.