2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Missouri for a Master’s

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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 Missouri, there were 175 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,112 and $23,250 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 45 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,301 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Missouri for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Missouri for a Master’s”.

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

1

Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, Missouri

#5 overall quality in Missouri

$54,112 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Louis University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Missouri for a Master’s. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 38 diplomas to qualified masters’s engineering students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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2

University of Missouri - Columbia
Columbia, Missouri

#4 overall quality in Missouri

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Missouri - Columbia. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Missouri for a Master’s. Columbia, Missouri is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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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.