2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Woodworking (Income $0-$30k)

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Woodworking Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 609 people earned their degree in woodworking, making the major the 322nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, woodworking graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $27,000 in loans still to pay off.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 woodworking graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent woodworking programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the woodworking 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 Woodworking Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree woodworking students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Woodworking (Income $0-$30k)

#1

Rhode Island School of Design

Providence, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$54,890 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Woodworking Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Rhode Island School of Design landed the #1 spot on the list. Rhode Island School of Design is a small school located in Providence, Rhode Island that handed out 9 masters’s woodworking degrees in 2019-2020.

RISD also made our “Best Woodworking Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at RISD are $54,890, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full RISD Woodworking Report

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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