2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Architectural Engineering Technology in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value AE Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,336 people earned their degree in architectural engineering technology, making the major the 228th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, architectural engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $49,833 and had an average of $22,511 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 22 architectural engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 9 architectural engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value AE Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in architectural engineering technology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality architectural engineering technology 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 architectural engineering technology program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

More Ways to Rank Architectural Engineering Technology Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value AE Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value AE Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree ae tech students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Architectural Engineering Technology in the Southwest Region

#1

Del Mar College

Corpus Christi, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$5,738 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value AE Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Del Mar College landed the #1 spot on the list. DMC is a fairly large public school situated in Corpus Christi, Texas. It awarded 8 associates’s AE tech degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region associate degree ae tech students list, DMC has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Architectural Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Del Mar College is $5,738 for Southwest Region Associate Degree AE Tech students.

Full Del Mar College Architectural Engineering Technology Report

#2

Tarrant County College District

Fort Worth, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$5,434 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tarrant County College District. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value AE Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region. Fort Worth, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s AE tech degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Tarrant County College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Architectural Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $5,434 for Southwest Region Associate Degree AE Tech students per year to attend Tarrant County College.

Read more about Architectural Engineering Technology at Tarrant County College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Architectural Engineering Technology

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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