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2022 Best Value Colleges for Meteorology (Income $48-$75k) in Massachusetts

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Best Value Meteorological Science Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $48-$75k

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 “Best Value Meteorological Science Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Meteorology is the 808th most popular major in the country with 218 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Massachusetts, there were 2 meteorology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent meteorology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the meteorology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Meteorological Science Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Meteorological Science Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts meteorological science students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Meteorology (Income $48-$75k) in Massachusetts

#1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Meteorological Science Schools in Massachusetts For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified ’s meteorological science students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at MIT, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Meteorology Schools in Massachusetts” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for MIT is $6,049 for Massachusetts Meteorological Science students whose families make $48-$75k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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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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