2022 Best Value Surveying Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Surveying Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 69 people earned their degree in surveying engineering, making the major the 1045th most popular in the United States.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 surveying engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Surveying Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in surveying engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great surveying engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the surveying engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Surveying Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree surveying engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Surveying Engineering (Income $0-$30k)

#1

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$28,352 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Surveying Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k list. University of Maine is located in Orono, Maine and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 masters’s surveying engineering degrees to qualified students.

UMaine also made our “Best Surveying Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Maine are $28,352, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full University of Maine Surveying Engineering Report

#2

University of Houston

Houston, Texas

$18,689 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Surveying Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k list. UH is located in Houston, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 masters’s surveying engineering degrees to qualified students.

UH not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #0 on our “Best Surveying Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UH are $18,689, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Surveying Engineering at University of Houston

#3

Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$15,683 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Surveying Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi landed the #3 spot on the list. Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi is a fairly large public school situated in Corpus Christi, Texas. It awarded 4 masters’s surveying engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Texas A&M Corpus Christi, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Surveying Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas A&M Corpus Christi are $15,683, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Surveying Engineering at Texas A&M Corpus Christi

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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