2022 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid

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 “Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 966 people earned their degree in manufacturing engineering, making the major the 241st most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, manufacturing engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $62,383 and had an average of $25,760 in loans still to pay off.

Across Massachusetts, there were 33 manufacturing engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 manufacturing engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,240 and $41,137 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in manufacturing engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great manufacturing engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the manufacturing engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The manufacturing engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid”.

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Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Manufacturing Engineering in Massachusetts (With Aid)

#1

Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$57,666 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid list. Boston University is a large school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 9 masters’s manufacturing engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Boston U also took the #1 spot in our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Boston University are $57,666, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Manufacturing Engineering at Boston U

#2

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Worcester, Massachusetts

$29,040 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$102,242 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid list. WPI is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Worcester, Massachusetts. It awarded 8 masters’s manufacturing engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

WPI did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are $29,040, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Manufacturing Engineering in the New England Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Manufacturing 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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