2022 Best Value Marine Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k

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 Marine Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 474 people earned their degree in marine engineering, making the major the 279th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, marine engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $78,460 and had an average of $24,129 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 21 marine engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 marine engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality marine 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 marine 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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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Marine Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Marine Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Marine Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Engineering (Income $75-$110k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$30,547 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Tech. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Marine Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Located in Blacksburg, Virginia, this large public school handed out 3 degrees to qualified masters’s marine engineering students in 2019-2020.

Virginia Tech also took the #1 spot in our “Best Marine Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Virginia Tech are $30,547, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Marine Engineering at Virginia Tech

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Marine Engineering (Income $75-$110k)

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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