Private · Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Get to know the college, from admissions and cost to life on campus.
Overview
MSOE started as night classes in practical electricity, taught by a German immigrant engineer who saw Milwaukee's factories needed trained people fast. It's still built on that direct line to industry: a downtown campus, and students land project work with Harley-Davidson, Kohler, and Snap-on while still enrolled. Engineering and computer science lead, but 20 majors also include business, nursing, and actuarial science.
About Milwaukee School of Engineering
- Type
- Private University
- Setting
- Urban
- Undergraduates
- 2,654
Admissions
- Early Decision/Early Action
- No
- Accepts Common App
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Cost
Tuition and aid
- Full cost of attendance
- $66,281per year
- Average family income
- $79,418
- Students with a school grant
- 100%
- Average school grant
- $31,922
- Average federal debt
- $27,000at graduation
- Need-blind
- —
- Meets full need
- —
- Merit scholarships
- Yes
- CSS Profile
- —
- International aid
- Merit scholarships available; not eligible for US federal aid
Academics
- Majors offered
- 23
- Freshmen who return
- 84%
- Notable
- #9nationally for undergraduate engineering programs, U.S. News & World Report
Students
Campus life
- Setting
- Urban
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI
- Live on campus
- —
- Student organizations
- —
- Varsity sports
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MSOE's 22-acre campus sits in downtown Milwaukee itself, and student life leans on that: Student Government represents over 2,500 students, the Student Union Board runs campus events, and clubs range from a Formula Hybrid team that won a world championship to competitive drone racing. MSOE's own framing, that campus life is as much a part of the experience as any class or lab, matches what's described elsewhere: a small, close, technically-minded community where academic and social life overlap rather than sitting in separate lanes. No independent MSOE student newspaper or substantial aggregate student-review coverage was found this pass, a real gap for a school this size.
Summarized by Spike from what students write: MSOE Campus Life.
Outcomes
- Earnings 6 years in
- $79,893
- Graduate within 6 years
- 69%
- Average federal debt
- $27,000
- Graduates go into
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Graduates, MSOE Graduates, Dwight Diercks '90, H'14
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