2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Engineering in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Other Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 2,900 people earned their degree in other engineering, making the major the 174th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, other engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $75,379 and had an average of $28,015 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 185 other engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $69,900 and $10,797 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 48 other engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Other Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the other engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Other Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree other engineering students.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Engineering in the Plains States Region

#1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Minneapolis, Minnesota

#2 in overall quality

$28,845 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Other Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is a large public school situated in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It awarded 21 masters’s other engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UMN Twin Cities did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Other Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities are $28,845, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#2

Washington University in St Louis

Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$56,562 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Other Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington University in St Louis landed the #2 spot on the list. Saint Louis, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s other engineering degrees to 27 students in 2019-2020.

WUSTL also took the #1 spot in our “Best Other Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Washington University in St Louis are $56,562.

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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