2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering Technology in Illinois

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Civil Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in Illinois” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Civil Engineering Technology is the 219th most popular major in the country with 1,344 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, civil engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $53,936 and had an average of $20,807 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 10 civil engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 10 civil engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,469 and $14,548 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality civil 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 civil engineering technology program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Civil Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in Illinois” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Civil Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois associate degree civil engineering tech students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Civil Engineering Technology in Illinois

#1

Lake Land College

Mattoon, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$4,468 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lake Land College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Civil Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in Illinois list. Lake Land College is a small school located in Mattoon, Illinois that handed out 10 associates’s civil engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Lake Land College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Civil Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. It costs about $4,468 for Illinois Associate Degree Civil Engineering Tech students per year to attend Lake Land College.

Read full report on Civil Engineering Technology at Lake Land College

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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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Sean Mack.

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