Top Reasons To Choose West Texas A&M University Online
The University is a Hispanic Serving Institution. The College of Engineering provides nationally ranked undergraduate and graduate programs. U.S News & World Report ranks the college as a best online program for veterans, and as a best online graduate engineering program.
Students may earn online undergraduate degrees in civil, environmental, and mechanical engineering.
A master’s degree in engineering is also offered online.
The University is a Servicemembers Opportunity College and credit is available for military training.
Online Master’s Degrees
West Texas A&M University Master’s Degree
West Texas A&M University (WTAMU) charges in-state engineering graduate students tuition fees as low as $50 per credit, and $80 per credit for non-resident students, making WTAMU one of the most affordable online universities for earning an engineering master’s degree. This school offers a fully online Master of Science in Engineering, which allows students to choose from three specializations:
Mechanical engineering
Civil engineering
Environmental engineering
Online students will be required to earn a total of 36 credits. This is a non-thesis degree, but it does require students to complete a three-credit final project, which consists of a written report and an oral presentation. In addition, to help foster a well-rounded education, students will complete 15 credits within their specialization; 12 credits within one of three sub-specializations; and six credits of elective courses. Courses cover topics such as combustion theory, advanced hydrology, and engineering statistics.
An institution’s program specfic score is calculated with seven data points: (1) its student-to-faculty ratio, (2) its the graduation rate, (3) its retention rate, (4) its percentage of online students, (5) its concentrated Influence (a measure of the academic importance of a school), (6) its desirability (a measure of how many students chose to go to an institution), and (7) its exclusivity (a measure of how selective the insitutionis).
For each data point, we score schools based on where they fall compared to the other institutions on our site. Because our scores are based only on institutions with engineering programs and not tied to institutions without these programs, they accurately reflect an institutions’s value to the engineering student. Institutions with missing data receive a zero for that data point.
We weigh each data point and calculate an institution’s raw score. Then we create an adjusted raw score by combining a schools's score with a base score of 50. Finally, we score and rank institutions based on their adjusted score’s comparison to the top scoring institution.
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An institution’s program specfic score is calculated with seven data points: (1) its student-to-faculty ratio, (2) its the graduation rate, (3) its retention rate, (4) its percentage of online students, (5) its concentrated Influence (a measure of the academic importance of a school), (6) its desirability (a measure of how many students chose to go to an institution), and (7) its exclusivity (a measure of how selective the insitutionis).
For each data point, we score schools based on where they fall compared to the other institutions on our site. Because our scores are based only on institutions with engineering programs and not tied to institutions without these programs, they accurately reflect an institutions’s value to the engineering student. Institutions with missing data receive a zero for that data point.
We weigh each data point and calculate an institution’s raw score. Then we create an adjusted raw score by combining a schools's score with a base score of 50. Finally, we score and rank institutions based on their adjusted score’s comparison to the top scoring institution.
Focused on online engineering colleges, our relative cost score compares the average in-state tuitions of institutions with online engineering programs.
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