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2023 Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Master's Degree Schools

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$31,463 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$58,262 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Master's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, 8,964 people earned a degree or certificate in drafting and design engineering technology, making the major the #154 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Master's Degree Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for design engineering tech 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.

2023 Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Schools in the United States

Check out the design engineering tech master's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Drafting & Design Engineering

Our 2023 rankings named Eastern Michigan University the best value school in the United States for drafting and design engineering technology students working on their master’s degree. Eastern Michigan is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Ypsilanti.

Eastern Michigan graduate students pay an average of $28,818 in tuition and fees each year.

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#2

Academy of Art University

San Francisco, CA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Academy of Art University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Master’s Degree Schools list. Academy of Art University is a medium-sized private for-profit school located in the large city of San Francisco.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Academy of Art University are $28,496 per year.

Full Drafting & Design Engineering Technology at Academy of Art University Report

#3

Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Drexel University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Master’s Degree Schools list. Drexel is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Philadelphia.

Drexel graduate students pay an average of $37,074 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Drafting & Design Engineering Technology at Drexel University Report

Drafting & Design Engineering Technology by Region

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

One of 18 majors within the area of study, drafting and design engineering technology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Industrial Production Technology 11,906
Electromechanical Engineering Technology 10,593
Environmental Control Technology 8,690
Electronics Engineering Technology 8,592
Engineering-Related Fields 6,736

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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 Pixabay.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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