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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2023 Best Value Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Value Engineering Doctor's Degree Colleges.
Top 10 Best Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools
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 also made our Best Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, coming in at #4.
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Out of the 21 schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Texas Tech is a fairly 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.
The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Lamar University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value engineering schools in the Southwest Region . 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.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the medium-sized city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public college with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Texas A&M College Station are $24,106 a 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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Out of the 21 schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Houston, UH is a public college with a very large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UH are $18,871 per year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, UH also is in the top 20% of our Best Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking.
With a ranking of #6, University of Tulsa did quite well on this year’s best value schools for engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. University of Tulsa is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Tulsa.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at University of Tulsa are $25,182 a year.
With a ranking of #7, New Mexico State University - Main Campus did quite well on this year’s best value schools for engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Las Cruces, NMSU Main Campus is a public college with a large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at NMSU Main Campus are $18,275 a 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 distant town of Kingsville, Texas A&M Kingsville is a public school with a medium-sized student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas A&M Kingsville are $14,344 per 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 distant town of Stillwater.
OSU graduate students pay an average of $24,175 in tuition and fees each year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, OSU also is in the top 20% of our Best Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking.
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Rice University landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree engineering programs. Rice is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Houston.
Rice graduate students pay an average of $49,941 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, Rice is ranked #1 for overall quality for engineering in the Southwest Region .
Best Engineering Colleges by State
Explore the best engineering schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.
State | Degrees Awarded |
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Arizona | 4,416 |
Texas | 15,205 |
New Mexico | 1,111 |
Oklahoma | 2,060 |
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Majors Related to Engineering
Engineering Majors to Study
Most Popular Majors Related to Engineering
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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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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