by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 Pennsylvania, there were 446 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,380 and $25,385 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,037 and $44,515 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Pennsylvania” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Pennsylvania” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Pennsylvania”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Thomas Jefferson University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Pennsylvania list. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s engineering students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Carnegie Mellon University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Pennsylvania list. Carnegie Mellon is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It awarded 8 masters’s engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Temple University landed the #3 spot on the list. Temple University is a large school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that handed out 8 masters’s engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on General Engineering at Temple University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Pennsylvania. This large school is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 19 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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus General Engineering Report
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