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Best Value General Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Wisconsin

2023 Best Value General Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Wisconsin

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$14,642 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$87,583 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Engineering Master's Degree School for You

With 202 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, general engineering is the #75 most popular major in Wisconsin.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value General Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Wisconsin to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in Wisconsin to see which ones offered the best value master'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. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Best Wisconsin Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in General Engineering

Our 2023 rankings named University of Wisconsin - Platteville the best value school in Wisconsin for general engineering students working on their master’s degree. UW - Platteville is a moderately-sized public school located in the town of Platteville.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UW - Platteville are $9,257 per year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin list. UW - Madison is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Madison.

UW - Madison graduate students pay an average of $12,175 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UW - Madison did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin list.

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Out of the 4 schools in Wisconsin that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee landed the # 3 spot on the list. UWM is a fairly large public school located in the city of Milwaukee.

UWM graduate students pay an average of $12,220 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Milwaukee School of Engineering is a great value for general engineering students working on their master’s degree. MSOE is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Milwaukee.

MSOE graduate students pay an average of $24,917 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

MSOE also took the #3 spot in our Best General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin rankings.

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Best Value General Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value General Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 470
Ohio 243
Illinois 427
Indiana 254

General Engineering is one of 40 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Electrical Engineering 28,844
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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