2024 Best Systems Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
Systems Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #67 most popular master's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 7 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for systems engineering students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 181 master's degrees in systems engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Systems Engineering School for Your Master's Degree
The systems engineering master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality systems engineering program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
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 take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on systems engineering students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other systems 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 systems 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 systems engineering related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for systems engineering students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Systems Engineering Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Systems Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Featured Systems Engineering Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.