2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in West Virginia

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in West Virginia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

With 198,468 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, engineering is the 7th most popular major in the United States. 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 West Virginia, there were 990 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,190 and $26,646 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 117 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,814 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in West Virginia” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in West Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for west virginia master’s degree engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering in West Virginia

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West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia

#2 overall quality in West Virginia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia University landed the #1 spot on the list. West Virginia University is located in Morgantown, West Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 87 masters’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

Full West Virginia University Engineering Report

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Marshall University
Huntington, West Virginia

#5 overall quality in West Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marshall University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in West Virginia list. Marshall University is a fairly large school located in Huntington, West Virginia that handed out 30 masters’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Engineering at Marshall 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.