2022 Best Value Systems Engineering Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey

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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 New Jersey, there were 261 systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $88,900 and $19,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 110 systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,690 and $39,821 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great systems engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the systems engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Systems Engineering Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Systems Engineering Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering in New Jersey

#1

Stevens Institute of Technology

Hoboken, New Jersey

#1 in overall quality

$38,876 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$96,183 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stevens Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Systems Engineering Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey list. Hoboken, New Jersey is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s systems engineering degrees to 105 students in 2019-2020.

Stevens also took the #1 spot in our “Best Systems Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Stevens are $38,876, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology

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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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