2022 Best Value Water Resources Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Water Resources Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 59 people earned their degree in water resources engineering, making the major the 1005th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 6 water resources engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 water resources engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great water resources engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the water resources 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Water Resources Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Water Resources Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree water resources engineering students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Water Resources Engineering in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Albuquerque, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$19,890 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Water Resources Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s water resources engineering degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

UNM also took the #1 spot in our “Best Water Resources Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of New Mexico - Main Campus are $19,890, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of New Mexico - Main Campus Water Resources Engineering Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Water Resources Engineering (With Aid)

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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