2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies (Income $75-$110k) in Colorado

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Tech Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Engineering Technologies is the 19th most popular major in the country with 86,730 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, engineering technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $46,894 and had an average of $21,178 in loans still to pay off.

Across Colorado, there were 1,597 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,964 and $25,560 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 43 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,789 and $41,587 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in engineering technologies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent engineering technologies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the engineering technologies 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies (Income $75-$110k) in Colorado

#1

Colorado State University - Fort Collins

Fort Collins, Colorado

$28,055 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $75-$110k list. Located in Fort Collins, Colorado, this large public school handed out 7 degrees to qualified masters’s engineering tech students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Colorado State, the school also landed the #0 spot in our “Best Engineering Technologies Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Colorado State are $28,055, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Engineering Technologies at Colorado State University - Fort Collins

#2

Colorado School of Mines

Golden, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$39,800 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado School of Mines landed the #2 spot on the list. Colorado School of Mines is located in Golden, Colorado and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 36 masters’s engineering tech degrees to qualified students.

Mines did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Engineering Technologies Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Mines are $39,800.

Read more about Engineering Technologies at Colorado School of Mines

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies (Income $75-$110k) in the Rocky Mountains Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies (Income $75-$110k)

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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