2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in District of Columbia

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in District of Columbia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Engineering is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 7th of all the majors we analyze. In 2021-2022, 192,474 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In , engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $68,641 and had an average of $23,252 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 630 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $82,386 and $26,793 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 251 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,686 and $62,807 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in engineering.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in District of Columbia”.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering in District of Columbia

1

Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

#4 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Catholic University of America. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in District of Columbia list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 32 diplomas to qualified masters’s engineering students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Engineering at Catholic University of America

2

George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#2 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Washington University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in District of Columbia. GWU is a large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 209 masters’s engineering degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Engineering at George Washington University

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University of the District of Columbia
Washington, District of Columbia

#8 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the District of Columbia. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in District of Columbia list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering degrees to 5 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Engineering at University of the District of Columbia

4

Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

#6 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Howard University landed the #4 spot on the list. Howard University is a fairly large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 5 masters’s engineering degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Howard University Engineering Report

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

• *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.

Credits

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