2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering in Missouri

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in Missouri” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Systems Engineering is the 160th most popular major in the country with 3,904 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, systems engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $89,736 and had an average of $21,799 in loans still to pay off.

Across Missouri, there were 131 systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,035 and $20,450 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 46 systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,301 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in Missouri” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in systems engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in systems engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in Missouri

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering in Missouri

1

Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla, Missouri

#3 overall quality in Missouri

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Missouri University of Science and Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in Missouri. Missouri University of Science and Technology is a medium-sized school located in Rolla, Missouri that handed out 34 masters’s systems engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Systems Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 overall quality in Missouri

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington University in St Louis. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in Missouri. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 12 diplomas to qualified masters’s systems engineering students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, 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 94%.

Read full report on Systems Engineering at WUSTL

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering

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

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