2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering in Idaho

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Engineering Major in Idaho” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

With 192,474 degrees handed out in 2021-2022, engineering is the 7th most popular major in the United States. 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 Idaho, there were 851 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,467 and $23,599 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 127 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,135 and $37,977 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Idaho” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Idaho

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering in Idaho

1

University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho

#3 overall quality in Idaho

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Idaho. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Idaho. U of I is a fairly large school located in Moscow, Idaho that handed out 81 masters’s engineering degrees 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%.

Read full report on Engineering at University of Idaho

2

Boise State University
Boise, Idaho

#1 overall quality in Idaho

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boise State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Idaho list. Boise State University is a large public school situated in Boise, Idaho. It awarded 30 masters’s engineering degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Boise State Engineering Report

3

Idaho State University
Pocatello, Idaho

#6 overall quality in Idaho

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Idaho that were part of this year’s ranking, Idaho State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Pocatello, Idaho is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering degrees to 16 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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 full report on Engineering at ISU

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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