2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Trasportation Engineering is the 920th most popular major in the country with 119 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 trasportation engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,680 and $116,043 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in trasportation engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality trasportation engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the trasportation engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Transportation Engineering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for doctor’s degree transportation engineering students with aid.

Top 4 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Trasportation Engineering (With Aid)

#1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$56,719 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 4 degrees to qualified doctorate’s transportation engineering students in 2019-2020.

MIT did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Trasportation Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at MIT are $56,719.

Read full report on Trasportation Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

#2

University of California - Davis

Davis, California

#2 in overall quality

$28,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Davis. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid list. Davis, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s transportation engineering degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

UC Davis did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Trasportation Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UC Davis are $28,700.

Read more about Trasportation Engineering at University of California - Davis

#3

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Troy, New York

#3 in overall quality

$58,325 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute landed the #3 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Troy, New York, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s transportation engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

RPI not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Trasportation Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are $58,325, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full RPI Trasportation Engineering Report

#4

New York University

New York, New York

#3 in overall quality

$36,892 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New York University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Doctorate For Those Getting Aid list. NYU is a large school located in New York, New York that handed out 4 doctorate’s transportation engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our doctor’s degree transportation engineering students with aid list, NYU has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Trasportation Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at New York University are $36,892, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Trasportation Engineering at NYU

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Master Sgt. Roger Parsons.

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