2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Engineering is the 78th most popular major in the country with 11,925 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $66,152 and had an average of $20,077 in loans still to pay off.

Across Rhode Island, there were 140 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,500 and $14,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 56 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in Rhode Island

#1

Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$60,363 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$73,635 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the #1 spot on the list. Brown is located in Providence, Rhode Island and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 56 masters’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

Brown did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Brown University are $60,363.

Full Brown University General Engineering Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $48-$75k)

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Rémi Kaupp.

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