2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science (Income $75-$110k) in Massachusetts

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In 2019-2020, 1,668 people earned their degree in engineering science, making the major the 208th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, engineering science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $60,800 and had an average of $20,111 in loans still to pay off.

Across Massachusetts, there were 170 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 46 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,887 and $24,387 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent engineering science programs, but they also cost less that 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 engineering science program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science (Income $75-$110k) in Massachusetts

#1

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$15,553 Average Net Price

$70,456 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 46 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s engineering science students in 2019-2020.

Harvard also took the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” ranking. It costs about $15,553 for Massachusetts Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Science students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Harvard.

The low student loan default rate of 1.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science (Income $75-$110k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science (Income $75-$110k)

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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nicolás Pérez.

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