2022 Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid

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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 District of Columbia, there were 242 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $68,250 and $62,290 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 172 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,525 and $61,455 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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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Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in District of Columbia (With Aid)

#1

Georgetown University

Washington, District of Columbia

$53,591 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgetown University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s engineering tech degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

Georgetown also took the #0 spot in our “Best Engineering Technologies Master’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Georgetown University are $53,591.

Full Georgetown Engineering Technologies Report

#2

George Washington University

Washington, District of Columbia

#1 in overall quality

$31,824 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, George Washington University landed the #2 spot on the list. GWU is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 138 masters’s engineering tech degrees to qualified students.

GWU also made our “Best Engineering Technologies Master’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at George Washington University are $31,824, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Engineering Technologies at George Washington University

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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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