2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Transportation & Materials Moving in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Transportation & Materials Moving is the 33rd most popular major in the country with 29,084 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, transportation and materials moving graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,489 and had an average of $13,949 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 2,824 transportation and materials moving graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,472 and $14,996 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 transportation and materials moving graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in transportation and materials moving. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their transportation and materials moving program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree transportation & materials moving students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Transportation & Materials Moving in the Southwest Region

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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott
Prescott, Arizona

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Southwest Region. Embry-Riddle Prescott is located in Prescott, Arizona and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 masters’s transportation and materials moving degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% 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%.

Full Embry-Riddle Prescott Transportation & Materials Moving Report

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Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, Oklahoma

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Southwest Region. Stillwater, Oklahoma is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s transportation and materials moving degrees to 16 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Transportation & Materials Moving at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Transportation & Materials Moving

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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