2022 Best Value Paper Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Paper Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 45 people earned their degree in paper science and engineering, making the major the 1094th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 31 paper science and engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 paper science and engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality paper science and engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the paper science and engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

More Ways to Rank Paper Science & Engineering Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Paper Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Paper Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree paper engineering students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Paper Science & Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$31,355 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Paper Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the #1 spot on the list. Kalamazoo, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s paper engineering degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at WMU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Paper Science & Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at WMU are $31,355, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Paper Science & Engineering at WMU

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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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