2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Major in New Hampshire for a Master’s

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In 2020-2021, 198,468 engineering students received their degree, making the major the 7th most popular in the country. 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 “Most Well Attended Engineering Major in New Hampshire for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in engineering.

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Most Well Attended Engineering Major in New Hampshire for a Master’s

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

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

1

Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire

#1 overall quality in New Hampshire

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dartmouth College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Major in New Hampshire for a Master’s list. Dartmouth is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Hanover, New Hampshire. It awarded 156 masters’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Engineering at Dartmouth

2

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

#2 overall quality in New Hampshire

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Engineering Major in New Hampshire for a Master’s. Located in Durham, New Hampshire, this fairly large public school awarded 34 degrees to qualified masters’s engineering students in 2020-2021.

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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Full University of New Hampshire - Main Campus Engineering Report

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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.

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