2022 Best Value Programming Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Programming Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Computer Programming is the 121st most popular major in the country with 10,756 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, computer programming graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $45,886 and had an average of $26,222 in loans still to pay off.

Across Washington, there were 641 computer programming graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,900 and $30,017 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 151 computer programming graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,202 and $21,977 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Programming Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in computer programming. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality computer programming programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the computer programming program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Programming Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Programming Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computer Programming in Washington

#1

Lake Washington Institute of Technology

Kirkland, Washington

#2 in overall quality

$7,713 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lake Washington Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Programming Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington list. This small school is located in Kirkland, Washington, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s programming degrees in 2019-2020.

LWTech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Computer Programming Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Washington” list. The yearly cost to attend Lake Washington Institute of Technology is $7,713 for washington bachelor’s degree programming students.

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#2

DigiPen Institute of Technology

Redmond, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$39,022 Average Net Price

$86,424 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Programming Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington that were part of this year’s ranking, DigiPen Institute of Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Redmond, Washington, this small private for-profit school handed out 69 degrees to qualified bachelors’s programming students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our washington bachelor’s degree programming students list, Digipen has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Computer Programming Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Washington” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Digipen is $39,022 for washington bachelor’s degree programming students.

The low student loan default rate of 4.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Computer Programming at DigiPen Institute of Technology

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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