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2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Chemical Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in District of Columbia

1 Ranked Colleges
3 Degrees Awarded
$34,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Master's in District of Columbia For Those Making $48-$75k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Chemical Engineering is the 66th most popular major in the country with 13,610 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, chemical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $62,963 and had an average of $22,564 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 22 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,525 and $61,455 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent chemical engineering 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 chemical engineering 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Chemical Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in District of Columbia

#1

Howard University

Washington, District of Columbia
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Howard University landed the #1 spot on the list. Howard is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 3 masters’s chem eng degrees in 2019-2020.

Howard did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Chemical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Howard University are $34,224, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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