2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Drafting & Design Engineering Technology in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Drafting & Design Engineering Technology is the 142nd most popular major in the country with 9,770 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,644 drafting and design engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,533 and $19,253 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 drafting and design engineering technology 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 drafting and design engineering technology 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 drafting and design engineering technology program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Design Engineering 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 design engineering tech students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Drafting & Design Engineering Technology in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

Eastern Michigan University

Ypsilanti, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$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 in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. Eastern Michigan is a fairly large public school situated in Ypsilanti, Michigan. It awarded 7 masters’s design engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Eastern Michigan also took the #1 spot in our “Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Eastern Michigan University are $26,552, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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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