2025 Best Other Engineering Master's Degree Schools

If you plan on getting your master's degree in other engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #91 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 31 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for other engineering students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 1,708 master's degrees in other engineering to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Other Engineering School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of other engineering for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. 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 quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination 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 many resources a school devotes to other engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of other engineering students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• 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 other 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 other engineering related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for other engineering students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Other Engineering Schools

The other engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Other Engineering Master's Degree Schools.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Other Engineering in the United States

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in other engineering.

10 Top Schools for a Master's in Other Engineering

1

Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

97 Annual Graduates

$162,147 Median Starting Salary

It's difficult to beat Northwestern University if you want to pursue a master's degree in other engineering. Located in the small city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Other Engineering master's degree recipients from Northwestern University earn a boost of around $60,288 above the average income of other engineering graduates.

More information about a master’s in other engineering from Northwestern University

2

Stanford University
Stanford, CA

14 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Stanford University if you want to pursue a master's degree in other engineering. Located in the large suburb of Stanford, Stanford is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in other engineering from Stanford University

3

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

60 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in other engineering has to take a look at Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Pittsburgh.More information about a master’s in other engineering from Carnegie Mellon University

4

University of California - Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

84 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in other engineering has to check out University of California - Berkeley. Located in the city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in other engineering from University of California - Berkeley

5

Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, MO

41 Annual Graduates

WUSTL is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Saint Louis.More information about a master’s in other engineering from Washington University in St Louis

6

University of California - San Diego
La Jolla, CA

37 Annual Graduates

$142,225 Median Starting Salary

Located in the city of La Jolla, UCSD is a public university with a very large student population.

Master's recipients from the other engineering major at University of California - San Diego earn $40,366 more than the average graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.

More information about a master’s in other engineering from University of California - San Diego

7

University of Virginia - Main Campus
Charlottesville, VA

22 Annual Graduates

University of Virginia is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Charlottesville.More information about a master’s in other engineering from University of Virginia - Main Campus

8

Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, IN

97 Annual Graduates

$120,243 Median Starting Salary

Located in the city of West Lafayette, Purdue is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Other Engineering master's degree recipients from Purdue University - Main Campus earn a boost of approximately $18,384 above the typical earnings of other engineering majors.

More information about a master’s in other engineering from Purdue University - Main Campus

9

Northeastern University
Boston, MA

333 Annual Graduates

$81,287 Median Starting Salary

Located in the city of Boston, Northeastern is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Students who graduate with their master's from the other engineering program state that they receive average early career earnings of $81,287.

More information about a master’s in other engineering from Northeastern University

10

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD

12 Annual Graduates

Located in the suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in other engineering from University of Maryland - College Park

Other Engineering by Region

View the Best Other Engineering Master's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Other Engineering Related Rankings by Major

Other Engineering is one of 41 different types of Engineering programs to choose from.

Other Engineering Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Other Engineering	1,708

Majors Similar to Other Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	9,192
Mechanical Engineering	7,402
Computer Engineering	5,898
Civil Engineering	4,960
General Engineering	3,783
Biomedical Engineering	3,671
Industrial Engineering	2,737
Systems Engineering	2,407
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	2,402
Chemical Engineering	1,687

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.