2022 Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 9,770 people earned their degree in drafting and design engineering technology, making the major the 142nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, drafting and design engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $37,947 and had an average of $20,124 in loans still to pay off.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 154 drafting and design engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in drafting and design engineering technology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality drafting and design engineering technology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the drafting and design engineering technology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree design engineering tech students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Drafting & Design Engineering Technology (With Aid)

#1

Eastern Michigan University

Ypsilanti, Michigan

$26,552 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Michigan University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid list. Eastern Michigan is a fairly large school located in Ypsilanti, Michigan that handed out 7 masters’s design engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Eastern Michigan also made our “Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at Eastern Michigan University are $26,552, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Drafting & Design Engineering Technology at Eastern Michigan

#2

Academy of Art University

San Francisco, California

#1 in overall quality

$27,688 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$55,964 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Academy of Art University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Getting Aid list. This medium-sized school is located in San Francisco, California, and it awarded 134 masters’s design engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Academy of Art University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Academy of Art University are $27,688, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Drafting & Design Engineering Technology at Academy of Art University

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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