2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering in Utah

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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 Utah, there were 2,188 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,849 and $15,933 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 375 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,613 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Utah” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Utah

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

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering in Utah

1

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

#3 overall quality in Utah

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Utah. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Utah. University of Utah is located in Salt Lake City, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 219 masters’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full U of U Engineering Report

2

Utah State University
Logan, Utah

#5 overall quality in Utah

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Utah that were part of this year’s ranking, Utah State University landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Logan, Utah, and it awarded 80 masters’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full USU Engineering Report

3

Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, Utah

#1 overall quality in Utah

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brigham Young University - Provo. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Utah. BYU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Provo, Utah. The school has a large population, and it awarded 68 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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 more about Engineering at BYU

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Weber State University
Ogden, Utah

#7 overall quality in Utah

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Weber State University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Utah. This large school is located in Ogden, Utah, and it awarded 8 masters’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Engineering at Weber State University

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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 Petty Officer 3rd Class Declan Barnes.