2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 2,760 people earned their degree in other engineering, making the major the 177th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, other engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $75,713 and had an average of $25,106 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 69 other engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $109,082 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 37 other engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Engineering in the Southwest Region

1

Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, Oklahoma

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, this large public school handed out 27 degrees to qualified masters’s other engineering students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Other Engineering at OSU

2

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#10 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Dallas, Texas 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 10 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.

Read full report on Other Engineering at SMU

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Engineering

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.