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2022 Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
16 Degrees Awarded
$56,600 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Master's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

Science Technologies / Technicians is the 37th most popular major in the country with 7,387 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, science technologies / technicians graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,463 and had an average of $14,918 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 444 science technologies / technicians graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,775 and $21,815 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 science technologies / technicians graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great science technologies / technicians programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the science technologies / technicians program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree science tech students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Science Technologies / Technicians in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. Northwestern University is located in Evanston, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 16 masters’s science tech degrees to qualified students.

Northwestern did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Science Technologies / Technicians Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Northwestern are $56,567, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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