2023 Best Value General Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best General Engineering Doctor's Degree School for You
In 2020-2021, 3,548 people earned a degree or certificate in general engineering, making the major the #64 most popular in the United States.
With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
The Best Value General Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 39 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for engineering students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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2023 Best Value General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the United States
The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for engineering majors pursuing a doctor's degree.
Top 10 Best General Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools
Our analysis found Louisiana Tech University to be the best value school for general engineering students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in the United States. Located in the town of Ruston, Louisiana Tech is a public college with a fairly large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Louisiana Tech are $12,690 per year.
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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Nebraska - Lincoln helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value general engineering schools in the United States. UNL is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Lincoln.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UNL are $19,541 a year.
A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Villanova University is a great value for general engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the large suburb of Villanova, Villanova is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.
Villanova graduate students pay an average of $21,199 in tuition and fees each year.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - College Station. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Texas A&M College Station is a fairly large public school located in the city of College Station.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Texas A&M College Station are $24,106 a year.
Texas A&M College Station excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools list.
A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Lamar University is a great value for general engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of Beaumont, Lamar University is a public college with a large student population.
Lamar University graduate students pay an average of $15,755 in tuition and fees each year.
Jackson State University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking. Jackson State is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of Jackson.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Jackson State are $9,445 a year.
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University of Arkansas came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking. UARK is a very large public school located in the city of Fayetteville.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UARK are $22,563 a year.
Rowan University ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Rowan is a large public school located in the suburb of Glassboro.
Rowan graduate students pay an average of $16,146 in tuition and fees each year.
University of California - Berkeley came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the medium-sized city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley is a public college with a very large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UC Berkeley are $29,262 a year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, UC Berkeley also is in the top 5% of our Best General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking.
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Tennessee Technological University came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Value General Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the town of Cookeville, Tennessee Tech University is a public college with a medium-sized student population.
Tennessee Tech University graduate students pay an average of $20,702 in tuition and fees each year.
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Majors Related to Engineering
General Engineering is one of 39 different types of programs to choose from.
Most Popular Majors Related to Engineering
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Electrical Engineering | 11,021 |
Mechanical Engineering | 9,007 |
Civil Engineering | 6,042 |
Computer Engineering | 5,557 |
Biomedical Engineering | 4,252 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 25 schools only.
- 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 the rest 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).
- Credit for the banner image above goes to Rémi Kaupp.
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