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2022 Best Value General Drafting & Design Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k

5 Ranked Colleges
145 Degrees Awarded
$17,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value General Drafting & Design Tech Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value General Drafting & Design Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking.

General Drafting & Design Technology is the 300th most popular major in the country with 4,586 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 145 general drafting and design technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value General Drafting & Design Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in general drafting and design technology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general drafting and design technology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general drafting and design technology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value General Drafting & Design Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree general drafting & design tech students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Drafting & Design Technology (Income $0-$30k)

#1

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value General Drafting & Design Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, this fairly large public school awarded 31 degrees to qualified bachelors’s general drafting and design tech students in 2019-2020.

WMU also made our “Best General Drafting & Design Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $13,021 for Bachelor’s Degree General Drafting & Design Tech students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend WMU.

Full Western Michigan University General Drafting & Design Technology Report

#2

East Carolina University

Greenville, North Carolina
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Carolina University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value General Drafting & Design Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k list. Greenville, North Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general drafting and design tech degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at ECU, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best General Drafting & Design Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $11,026 for Bachelor’s Degree General Drafting & Design Tech students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend ECU.

Read full report on General Drafting & Design Technology at ECU

#3

Sam Houston State University

Huntsville, Texas
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sam Houston State University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value General Drafting & Design Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k. Sam Houston State University is a large school located in Huntsville, Texas that handed out 9 bachelors’s general drafting and design tech degrees in 2019-2020.

SHSU also took the #5 spot in our “Best General Drafting & Design Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend SHSU is $10,561 for Bachelor’s Degree General Drafting & Design Tech students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read more about General Drafting & Design Technology at Sam Houston State University

#4

Pennsylvania College of Technology

Williamsport, Pennsylvania
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pennsylvania College of Technology. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value General Drafting & Design Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k list. Pennsylvania College of Technology is a small public school situated in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. It awarded 26 bachelors’s general drafting and design tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Penn College also made our “Best General Drafting & Design Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #4. The yearly cost to attend Pennsylvania College of Technology is $22,255 for bachelor’s degree general drafting & design tech students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full Pennsylvania College of Technology General Drafting & Design Technology Report

#5

Academy of Art University

San Francisco, California
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value General Drafting & Design Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Academy of Art University landed the #5 spot on the list. Academy of Art University is a medium-sized private for-profit school situated in San Francisco, California. It awarded 63 bachelors’s general drafting and design tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Academy of Art University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Drafting & Design Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Academy of Art University is $29,390 for Bachelor’s Degree General Drafting & Design Tech students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read more about General Drafting & Design Technology at Academy of Art University

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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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