2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Hampshire

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Engineering is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 7th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 198,468 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,653 and had an average of $23,855 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Hampshire, there were 654 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,737 and $25,012 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 190 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,663 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Hampshire” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in engineering.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Hampshire

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering in New Hampshire

1

Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire

#1 overall quality in New Hampshire

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Hampshire that were part of this year’s ranking, Dartmouth College landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Hanover, New Hampshire, and it awarded 156 masters’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Dartmouth Engineering Report

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University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

#2 overall quality in New Hampshire

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Hampshire that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Hampshire - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Durham, New Hampshire, this fairly large public school awarded 34 diplomas to qualified masters’s engineering students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Engineering at University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

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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

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