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2022 Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k

6 Ranked Colleges
78 Degrees Awarded
$30,400 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master's in the Plains States 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. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering is the 109th most popular major in the country with 7,582 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Plains States region, there were 546 aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 78 aerospace and aeronautical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in aerospace and aeronautical engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent aerospace and aeronautical engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the aerospace and aeronautical engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 6 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in the Plains States Region

#1

Washington University in St Louis

Saint Louis, Missouri
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington University in St Louis landed the #1 spot on the list. Washington University in St Louis is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 21 masters’s aerospace engineering degrees to qualified students.

WUSTL also took the #1 spot in our “Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Washington University in St Louis are $56,562, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#2

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the #2 spot on the list. UMN Twin Cities is a large public school situated in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It awarded 3 masters’s aerospace engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UMN Twin Cities also took the #0 spot in our “Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UMN Twin Cities are $28,845.

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#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Missouri University of Science and Technology. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Missouri University of Science and Technology is a medium-sized school located in Rolla, Missouri that handed out 10 masters’s aerospace engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Missouri University of Science and Technology also made our “Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #3. Average graduate tuition and fees at Missouri University of Science and Technology are $30,943, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Iowa State University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. Iowa State University is located in Ames, Iowa and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 13 masters’s aerospace engineering degrees to qualified students.

Iowa State also made our “Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at Iowa State are $25,948, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering at Iowa State

#5

Wichita State University

Wichita, Kansas
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wichita State University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. Wichita, Kansas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s aerospace engineering degrees to 24 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at WSU, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Wichita State University are $15,112, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#6

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas
#4 in overall quality

University of Kansas came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Aerospace Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k ranking. Located in Lawrence, Kansas, this large public school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s aerospace engineering students in 2019-2020.

KU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Kansas are $25,007.

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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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