2022 Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

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 Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Engineering-Related Fields is the 120th most popular major in the country with 6,319 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, engineering-related fields graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $73,026 and had an average of $26,903 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 358 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,700 and $22,500 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,970 and $95,025 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality engineering-related fields 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 engineering-related fields 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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The engineering-related fields school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k”.

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Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering-Related Fields (Income $30-$48k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Southern Methodist University

Dallas, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$47,478 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern Methodist University is located in Dallas, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 doctorate’s engineering-related fields degrees to qualified students.

SMU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Engineering-Related Fields Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at SMU are $47,478, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Engineering-Related Fields at Southern Methodist University

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering-Related Fields (Income $30-$48k)

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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