2025 Best Engineering Master's Degree Schools in North Carolina

If you plan on getting your master's degree in engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #6 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

College Factual reviewed 3 schools in North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of engineering. Combined, these schools handed out 1,433 master's degrees in engineering to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Engineering School for Your Master's Degree

The engineering master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality engineering program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt engineering students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized engineering related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for engineering students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Engineering Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Engineering Master's Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Engineering in North Carolina

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in engineering.

Top North Carolina Schools for a Master's in Engineering

1

Duke University
Durham, NC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

370 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Duke University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in engineering. Duke is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Durham.More information about a master’s in engineering from Duke University

2

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

847 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a master's degree in engineering has to check out North Carolina State University. Located in the city of Raleigh, NC State is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in engineering from North Carolina State University

3

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, NC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

127 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in engineering has to look into University of North Carolina at Charlotte. UNC Charlotte is a very large public university located in the large city of Charlotte.More information about a master’s in engineering from University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Best Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Mississippi	34	119
Florida	34	1,999
Virginia	33	925
Georgia	32	1,186
Tennessee	32	317
Kentucky	31	206
West Virginia	30	117
Alabama	30	681
Louisiana	30	160
South Carolina	30	468
Arkansas	30	137

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Engineering Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	312
Computer Engineering	270
Biomedical Engineering	138
Mechanical Engineering	137
Civil Engineering	101
Manufacturing Engineering	78
Industrial Engineering	76
Textile Engineering	59
Chemical Engineering	52
Other Engineering	35

Majors Similar to Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Biological & Biomedical Sciences	658
Engineering Technologies	520
Natural Resources & Conservation	340
Mathematics & Statistics	276
Physical Sciences	247
Architecture & Related Services	145
Agriculture & Agriculture Operations	99

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Petty Officer 3rd Class Declan Barnes. More about our data sources and methodologies.