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2023 Best Value Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

15 Colleges
$39,845 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$111,936 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Engineering Doctor's Degree School for You

With 198,468 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, engineering is the #7 most popular major in the United States.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. This report analyzed 15 schools in the New England Region 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.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for engineering majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

Top 10 Best Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Northeastern University the best value school in the New England Region for engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the large city of Boston, Northeastern is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Northeastern are $26,095 per year.

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Out of the 15 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Massachusetts Institute of Technology landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the midsize city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

MIT graduate students pay an average of $58,967 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, MIT is ranked #1 for overall quality for engineering in the New England Region .

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#3

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

Out of the 15 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the # 3 spot on the list. Harvard is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Cambridge.

Harvard graduate students pay an average of $52,170 in tuition and fees each year.

Harvard also made our Best Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list, coming in at #2.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value engineering schools in the New England Region . Located in the city of Worcester, WPI is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at WPI are $29,040 a year.

WPI excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list.

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#5

Brown University

Providence, RI

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brown University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the midsize city of Providence, Brown is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Brown are $62,083 a year.

Brown did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list.

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University of Massachusetts - Lowell ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list. UMass Lowell is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Lowell.

UMass Lowell graduate students pay an average of $26,990 in tuition and fees each year.

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University of Massachusetts Amherst came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. UMass Amherst is a very large public school located in the suburb of Amherst.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UMass Amherst are $32,809 a year.

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University of New Hampshire - Main Campus ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the small suburb of Durham, UNH is a public college with a large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNH are $29,992 per year.

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#9

Tufts University

Medford, MA

Tufts University ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the suburb of Medford, Tufts is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Tufts are $55,216 a year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Tufts also is in the top 15% of our Best Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking.

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University of Connecticut landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree engineering programs. UCONN is a very large public school located in the suburb of Storrs.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UCONN are $42,237 per year.

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Best Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best engineering schools for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
New Hampshire 649
Maine 404
Rhode Island 667
Massachusetts 9,717
Connecticut 2,153
Vermont 346

Engineering Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Electrical Engineering 28,844
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917
Biomedical Engineering 12,811
General Engineering 11,796
Industrial Engineering 9,072
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering 8,001
Systems Engineering 3,904
Materials Engineering 3,415
Other Engineering 2,760
Environmental Engineering 2,759
Operations Research 1,698
Agricultural Engineering 1,472
Engineering Science 1,454
Electrical and Computer Engineering. 1,378
Petroleum Engineering 1,256
Robotics Engineering 1,243
Architectural Engineering 1,012
Engineering Physics 994
Manufacturing Engineering 947
Construction Engineering 878
Nuclear Engineering 864
Marine Engineering 445
Biological Engineering 410
Polymer & Plastics Engineering 360
Geoscience Engineering 325
Mining Engineering 314
Textile Engineering 310
Ocean Engineering 285
Engineering Mechanics 272
Metallurgical Engineering 179
Energy Systems Engineering 138
Biochemical Engineering 109
Ceramic Engineering 94
Surveying Engineering 73
Electromechanical Engineering 45
Forest Engineering 41
Paper Science & Engineering 27
Engineering Chemistry 13

Majors Similar to Engineering

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer & Information Sciences 254,454
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 177,778
Engineering Technologies 85,188
Mathematics & Statistics 52,396
Physical Sciences 50,306

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 15 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 Petty Officer 3rd Class Declan Barnes.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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