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2022 Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

2 Ranked Colleges
26 Degrees Awarded
$40,100 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Master's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

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 Structural Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Structural Engineering is the 665th most popular major in the country with 337 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 31 structural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 structural engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in structural engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent structural 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 structural engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Structural Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree structural engineering students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Structural Engineering in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor is a large school located in Ann Arbor, Michigan that handed out 6 masters’s structural engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

U-M also took the #0 spot in our “Best Structural Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor are $49,548.

Read full report on Structural Engineering at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Illinois Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Structural Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. Illinois Tech is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 20 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Illinois Tech, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Structural Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Illinois Tech are $30,695, 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%.

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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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