2025 Best Engineering Technologies Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
Engineering Technologies is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #20 out of the 37 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 12 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for engineering technologies students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 925 master's degrees in engineering technologies during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Engineering Technologies School for Your Master's Degree
The engineering tech master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to engineering technologies students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of engineering technologies students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Student Debt - How much debt engineering technologies students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized engineering technologies related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for engineering technologies students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Engineering Technologies Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.