General Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #59 most popular master's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 85 master's degrees in general engineering to qualified students.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general engineering students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of general engineering students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt general engineering students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general engineering related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general engineering students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study General Engineering in the Plains States Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in general engineering.
Top Plains States Region Schools for a Master's in Engineering
Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in general engineering needs to take a look at University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Located in the large city of Lincoln, UNL is a public university with a very large student population.
Master's recipients from the general engineering major at University of Nebraska - Lincoln earn $21,214 more than the standard graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in general engineering needs to check out Saint Louis University. Located in the large city of Saint Louis, SLU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Students who graduate with their master's from the engineering program state that they receive average early career wages of $67,482.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
