2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Science in the Far Western US Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2021-2022, 1,422 people earned their degree in general engineering science, making the major the 342nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 84 general engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 general engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,396 and $49,784 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general engineering science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general engineering science.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree engineering science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Science in the Far Western US Region

1

Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sonoma State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Far Western US Region. This medium-sized school is located in Rohnert Park, California, and it awarded 1 masters’s engineering science degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full SSU General Engineering Science Report

2

Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Naval Postgraduate School. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Far Western US Region list. Monterey, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering science degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on General Engineering Science at Naval Postgraduate School

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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 Nicolás Pérez.