2023 Best Value Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
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.
It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 21 schools in the Southwest Region to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for engineering students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
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.
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Our analysis found The University of Texas at Austin to be the best value school for engineering students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in the Southwest Region . UT Austin is a fairly large public school located in the city of Austin.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UT Austin are $22,944 per year.
UT Austin not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list.
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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Texas Tech University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value engineering schools in the Southwest Region . Texas Tech is a very large public school located in the large city of Lubbock.
Texas Tech graduate students pay an average of $17,698 in tuition and fees each year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lamar University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. Lamar University is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Beaumont.
Lamar University graduate students pay an average of $15,755 in tuition and fees each year.
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A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Texas A&M University - College Station is a great value for engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the midsize city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public college with a very large student population.
Texas A&M College Station graduate students pay an average of $24,106 in tuition and fees each year.
Texas A&M College Station also took the #5 spot in our Best Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region rankings.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the large city of Houston, UH is a public college with a fairly large student population.
UH graduate students pay an average of $18,871 in tuition and fees each year.
UH 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 Southwest Region list.
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University of Tulsa ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. University of Tulsa is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Tulsa.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at University of Tulsa are $25,182 per year.
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New Mexico State University - Main Campus ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public school with a large student population.
NMSU Main Campus graduate students pay an average of $18,275 in tuition and fees each year.
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Texas A&M University - Kingsville did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for engineering students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #8 on the list. Located in the town of Kingsville, Texas A&M Kingsville is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.
Texas A&M Kingsville graduate students pay an average of $14,344 in tuition and fees each year.
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Oklahoma State University - Main Campus ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. OSU is a fairly large public school located in the town of Stillwater.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at OSU are $24,175 a year.
OSU also claimed a spot on our Best Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.
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With a ranking of #10, Rice University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. Rice is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Houston.
Rice graduate students pay an average of $49,941 in tuition and fees each year.
Rice also took the #1 spot in our Best Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region rankings.
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Explore the best engineering schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Arizona | 4,416 |
| Texas | 15,205 |
| New Mexico | 1,111 |
| Oklahoma | 2,060 |
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| 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 21 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).
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