2022 Best Value Woodworking Schools for a Master’s

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Woodworking Schools for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that 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.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality woodworking programs that also have a lower cost than 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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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Woodworking Schools for a Master’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Woodworking Schools for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree woodworking students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Woodworking

#1

Rhode Island School of Design

Providence, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$54,890 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rhode Island School of Design. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Woodworking Schools for a Master’s. RISD is a private not-for-profit institution located in Providence, Rhode Island. The school has a small population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

RISD also took the #1 spot in our “Best Woodworking Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at RISD are $54,890.

Read full report on Woodworking at Rhode Island School of Design

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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