2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Getting Aid” 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 West Virginia, there were 90 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $17,798 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general engineering programs that also have a lower cost than 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 general engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in West Virginia (With Aid)

#1

Marshall University

Huntington, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$21,162 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Marshall University landed the #1 spot on the list. Marshall University is a public institution located in Huntington, West Virginia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 19 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Marshall University also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Marshall University are $21,162, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about General Engineering at Marshall University

#2

West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia

$26,154 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend West Virginia University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Getting Aid. West Virginia University is a large school located in Morgantown, West Virginia that handed out 1 masters’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at WVU, the school also landed the #0 spot in our “Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at WVU are $26,154, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on General Engineering at West Virginia University

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General 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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Rémi Kaupp.

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