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Overview
Founded in 1955, Rensselaer at Hartford is located in a midsized city with a population at least 100,000, but less than 250,000. It is in the Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown CT area.
Institutional Control
Rensselaer at Hartford is a private not-for-profit organization.
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Accreditation
Accreditation provides important oversight over a school's instructional practices and institutional stability.
Rensselaer at Hartford holds an accreditation from one of the seven regional accreditors, which should ensure that credits earned transfer easily to other schools.
Accreditation History
Middle States Commission on Higher Education (Accredited January 1, 1927 - present)
- The next accreditation review is scheduled for November 30, 2021.
Programs
Master's Degree offerings at Rensselaer at Hartford
Mechanical Engineering
A program that prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the design, development and operational evaluation of physical systems used in manufacturing and end-product systems used for specific uses, including machine tools, jigs and other manufacturing equipment; stationary power units and appliances; engines; self-propelled vehicles; housings and containers; hydraulic and electric systems for controlling movement; and the integration of computers and remote control with operating systems
Note: The name and definition of this program are based on Department of Education CIP code descriptions, which ensures uniform reporting across schools in the US. Please check this school's website for detailed program information and their specific course descriptions._
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Completions in Mechanical Engineering by award level
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Rensselaer at Hartford graduate program details
Program in Mechanical Engineering
Recently College Scorecard released data on starting salaries and cumulative federal student debt for each school/program combination with sufficient graduates to allow for privacy concerns with data releases. Shown in the box plots below are data for all schools offering mechanical engineering (which may contain several related fields) by award level. If a value is reported for Rensselaer at Hartford, then that is shown in blue.
Starting Salaries
Cumulative Federal Student Loan Debt
What can I do if I study Mechanical Engineering?
Below we list the careers that the US Department of Education suggests are best fits for people who studied mechanical engineering. You can get an idea of salary and the level of education you'll need, as well as whether this is a growing or shrinking career field. Sometimes this list of recommended careers doesn't match what people who earned this degree are really doing. Our mechanical engineering program page has much more information about the interplay between study in this field and possible careers. Select any table row to learn more about listed career.
Occupation
Follow these links to learn all about this career!
Costs
Graduate general costs
Here's a quick summary of costs to attend Rensselaer at Hartford. You will find the most up-to-date information at their website for admissions.
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$1,800
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Historic Annual Costs
This chart shows an inflation-adjusted view of the costs for general full-time graduate students over time. The shading reflects charges within your comparison group over the same time period. Private and public universities' charges are difficult to compare due to the in- and out-of-state structure of public universities, and therefore we only compare Rensselaer at Hartford to other private schools within your chosen comparison group.
Graduate Assistantships at Rensselaer at Hartford
Keep in mind that many graduate programs fund or partially fund their students through teaching, research, or other graduate assistantships. Some programs have provided graduate financial aid information that you can check for in the Programs section on this page. If we don't have that data, be sure to inquire with the academic department that interests you and do not assume you would have to pay full tuition for an academic graduate degree.
We believe that Rensselaer at Hartford does not offer assistantships to its graduate students. We calculated this percentage by dividing the number of graduate assistantships offered at Rensselaer at Hartford by its number of full-time-equivalent graduate students.
Graduate tuition, fees, books, and supplies over time
Research
The library is the backbone of academic learning and research
A rigorous academic program requires that students and faculty alike are engaging in independent research, and that activity requires strong library support. You can get some useful information here:
- How strong and how balanced between traditional physical books and easily-accessed (but expensive) electronic journals and other resources is this library?
- How much is this library borrowing from other libraries? The number of interlibrary loans received can indicate the school's commitment to getting the resources on-campus researchers need, and also of the research activity on campus.
- How big a resource is this library to other libraries? A large number of outgoing interlibrary loans speaks highly of the value of its content.
The presence of a library in and of itself is a good thing. Increasingly, libraries are comfortable and inviting spaces for individual and group study sessions. Librarians can be incredibly friendly guides in your quest to find materials that aid your learning.
Comparison of library resources per student
How do the per-student library resources at Rensselaer at Hartford compare to other schools?
Comparison of library loans per student
A small library could make up for a small collection by allowing a large number of interlibrary loans to be received. An excellent library can show its strength by its number of loans given.
Research funding: the best indicator of post-baccalaureate academic rigor
Any school that reports at least $150,000 in research and development expenditures in a given year should have submitted out the Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey to the National Science Foundation (NSF). We did not find HERD data for $Rensselaer at Hartford, so there would at most modest graduate-level academic scholarship campus-wide.
Classroom Experience
Student attention at Rensselaer at Hartford
Schools are required to report the ratio of students per instructor, but look for a small number of students for every full-time instructor as your best indicator of personal attention and a modern well-integrated curriculum.
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Full-time and long-term instructors at Rensselaer at Hartford
Full-time faculty are mostly likely to be on campus and available for interaction, and to craft up-to-date courses and programs. Rensselaer at Hartford has 60% full-time instructors, and 67% of the context schools have a higher percentage of full-time instructors. Faculty with multi-year contracts provide additional stability and commitment to the school and its students.Within the full-time instructors at Rensselaer at Hartford, none have multi-year employment contracts. Of the context schools, 97% have instructors with multi-year contracts.
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Student Body
Study Types
All students are part-time. No students take distance education courses.
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Context: Student body size
Rensselaer at Hartford enrolled 86 students over the past academic year. The the student body size is smaller than almost all the context schools.
Gratduate student gender
Is the gender balance of Rensselaer at Hartford students important to you? You can see the breakdown in this donut chart.
Gender
Men
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Gratduate student race/origin
Rensselaer at Hartford reports that 14% of students are minority, which is more than 99% of the context schools. However, with no international students, this school has a lower percentage of international students than 99% of the context schools.
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Not Reported
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Context: Gender Balance
It is very difficult for many types of schools to achieve a gender balance, and this context is valuable in evaluating the balance at Rensselaer at Hartford.
Context: Percentage of women
With 10% women students, Rensselaer at Hartford has a lower percentage of women than 99% of context schools.
Context: Student race/origin
Here is how Rensselaer at Hartford compares to the rest of the context group in terms of diversity in the student race and origin.
Student age distribution
Graduate students' ages may vary a lot from program to program, and we can only provide this statistic as a total for all graduate programs. In general, if the colors in the time chart lean towards lighter turquoise, you can surmise that this school is attracting students soon after they've completed their undergraduate degrees.
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School Finances
Rensselaer at Hartford: What its budget can tell you about classroom quality
Where a school spends and collects its money can suggest a lot about the educational experience it offers. The tabs below offer a look at spending that is important for the quality of your experience if you attend.
Instructional spending
Student services spending
Research spending
Context and trends: Instructional expenditures per student
Instructional expenses are primarily the salary and benefits paid to the heart of a school: its full-time instructors. High expenditures in this area suggest care in hiring enough highly qualified full-time faculty to provide personal attention and up-to-date subject-area excellence.
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Does incoming revenue consistently cover expenses?
Rensselaer at Hartford is a private not-for-profit school. Along with publicly-controlled schools, not-for-profit schools do not have the goal of annual profit, but they do want to have healthy finances with adequate revenue to meet all expenses. On the other hand, private for-profit schools have creating a profit for shareholders as an annual goal.
Total revenue and expenses by category
We divided revenue and expenses for Rensselaer at Hartford into categories to give some insight to what may have influenced peaks and ditches in the chart above. The purple shades correspond most directly to student education. The blue shades, auxiliary expenses and revenue, are often related to room and board. We show investment gains and losses in apricot.
Investment gains
Auxiliary revenue
Tuition and fees revenue
Government appropriations etc.
Private and capital gifts
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The power of a large endowment
Related to the previous question of whether the annual revenue stream is stable is the question, "How deep are this school's pockets?" For many schools, a major source of annual income is investment growth. Schools with large endowments have a built-in revenue stream, although you'll see in the accompanying graphs that this revenue stream is highly dependent on the nation's economy. You can choose how to examine the depth of Rensselaer at Hartford's resources by selecting from the buttons below.
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Net Assets
Total Endowment
Endowment Growth Rate
Net Assets Per Student
Here we examine assets at Rensselaer at Hartford in context, and it seems most fair to adjust for the size of the institution. We examine the assets per full-time-equivalent student so that we level the playing field for size.
There's a catch to these assets, though. Many gifts to a school's endowment have strings attached; the money is restricted to a specific purpose. Assets shown in green below are unrestricted, and are very important to a school's ability to meet its financial obligations. Some assets are the land and buildings that a school must have in order to function, and these may appear as green (unrestricted assets) but are nonetheless less helpful in meeting annual financial commitments. This look at assets is only a piece of the puzzle as we decide if a school is stable.
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Context: 2019 net assets per student
