2024 Best Trasportation Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

When it comes to popularity, a doctor's degree in trasportation engineering sits in the middle of the road, ranking #424 out of 862 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.

In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Trasportation Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 12 doctor's degrees in trasportation engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to trasportation engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other trasportation engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized trasportation engineering related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for trasportation engineering students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Trasportation Engineering Schools

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 Trasportation Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Trasportation Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in trasportation engineering.

Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Doctorate in Transportation Engineering

1

New York University
New York, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

5 Annual Graduates

New York University is a wonderful decision for students pursuing a doctor's degree in trasportation engineering. Located in the city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in trasportation engineering from New York University

2

New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

4 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in trasportation engineering has to look into New Jersey Institute of Technology. Located in the large city of Newark, NJIT is a public school with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in trasportation engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology

3

Morgan State University
Baltimore, MD

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

2 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in trasportation engineering has to look into Morgan State University. Morgan State is a moderately-sized public university located in the large city of Baltimore.More information about a doctorate in trasportation engineering from Morgan State University

Best Trasportation Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best trasportation engineering colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	366	6
Maryland	190	2
New Jersey	165	4

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Rankings in Majors Related to Transportation Engineering

One of 5 majors within the Civil Engineering area of study, Trasportation Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Civil Engineering	125
Structural Engineering	4

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Master Sgt. Roger Parsons. More about our data sources and methodologies.