2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Trasportation Engineering in California (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across California, there were 19 trasportation engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 trasportation engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,281 and $50,119 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in trasportation engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent trasportation 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 trasportation 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 Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Trasportation Engineering in California (With Aid)

#1

University of California - Davis

Davis, California

$28,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Davis. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Davis, California, this large public school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s transportation engineering students in 2019-2020.

UC Davis also made our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in California” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of California - Davis are $28,700, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full UC Davis Trasportation Engineering Report

#2

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California

#1 in overall quality

$48,715 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Transportation Engineering Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern California landed the #2 spot on the list. Los Angeles, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s transportation engineering degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at USC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Trasportation Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in California” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Southern California are $48,715.

Read more about Trasportation Engineering at University of Southern California

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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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