2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering in Maryland

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In 2019-2020, 3,604 people earned their degree in systems engineering, making the major the 164th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, systems engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $90,261 and had an average of $27,803 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maryland, there were 172 systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $109,900 and $14,341 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 159 systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,477 and $45,000 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Systems Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Maryland” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in systems engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality systems engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the systems engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Systems Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Maryland

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering in Maryland

#1

University of Maryland - College Park

College Park, Maryland

#2 in overall quality

$30,885 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Systems Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - College Park landed the #1 spot on the list. College Park, Maryland is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s systems engineering degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

UMCP did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Systems Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UMCP are $30,885, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Systems Engineering at University of Maryland - College Park

#2

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$59,425 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$120,549 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Systems Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, Johns Hopkins University landed the #2 spot on the list. Johns Hopkins University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Baltimore, Maryland. It awarded 147 masters’s systems engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Johns Hopkins also made our “Best Systems Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Johns Hopkins University are $59,425, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Johns Hopkins Systems 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

• *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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