2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Jersey

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Jersey” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Engineering is the 79th most popular major in the country with 11,534 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $68,578 and had an average of $22,777 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Jersey, there were 245 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 46 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,237 and $39,823 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Jersey” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Jersey

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Jersey”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in New Jersey

1

Rowan University
Glassboro, New Jersey

#10 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rowan University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Jersey. Rowan University is a public institution located in Glassboro, New Jersey. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 46 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Rowan University General Engineering Report

2

Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, New Jersey

#2 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stevens Institute of Technology. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in New Jersey. Stevens Institute of Technology is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Hoboken, New Jersey. It awarded 0 masters’s engineering degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology

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 Rémi Kaupp.