2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering in Rhode Island (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 200,458 engineering students received their degree, making the major the 6th most popular in the country. In 2017-2018, engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $64,888 and had an average of $23,564 in loans still to pay off.

Across Rhode Island, there were 743 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,375 and $24,092 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 144 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality 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 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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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid

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

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

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

$29,082 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid. URI is located in Kingston, Rhode Island and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 65 masters’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

URI also made our “Best Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at URI are $29,082, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Engineering at URI

#2

Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$60,363 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brown University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Getting Aid. Brown is located in Providence, Rhode Island and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 79 masters’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

Brown did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Brown are $60,363, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Brown University Engineering Report

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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

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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