2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Engineering in the Plains States Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Other Engineering Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Other Engineering is the 177th most popular major in the country with 2,901 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , other engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $74,797 and had an average of $30,808 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Plains States region, there were 181 other engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,649 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 61 other engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in other engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in other engineering.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree other engineering students.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Engineering in the Plains States Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington University in St Louis landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 39 degrees to qualified masters’s other engineering students in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, 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%.
Full Washington University in St Louis Other Engineering Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Plains States Region list. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is a public institution located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The school has a large population, and it awarded 21 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Other Engineering at UMN Twin Cities
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Iowa landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Iowa City, Iowa, this large public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified masters’s other engineering students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full University of Iowa Other Engineering Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Plains States Region list. University of Nebraska - Lincoln is located in Lincoln, Nebraska and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 masters’s other engineering degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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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
- *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.
