2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Science Technologies / Technicians in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality science technologies / technicians 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 science technologies / technicians program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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” 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

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region.

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

#1

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$56,567 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Evanston, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 16 degrees to qualified masters’s science tech students in 2019-2020.

Northwestern also made our “Best Science Technologies / Technicians Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Northwestern are $56,567, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Science Technologies / Technicians at Northwestern

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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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