2022 Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in Georgia

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In 2019-2020, 9,770 people earned their degree in drafting and design engineering technology, making the major the 142nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, drafting and design engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $37,947 and had an average of $20,124 in loans still to pay off.

Across Georgia, there were 364 drafting and design engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 66 drafting and design engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,274 and $19,485 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in Georgia” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in drafting and design engineering technology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent drafting and design engineering technology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the drafting and design engineering technology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in Georgia

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in Georgia.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Drafting & Design Engineering Technology in Georgia

#1

Gwinnett Technical College

Lawrenceville, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$11,110 Average Net Price

$40,281 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Gwinnett Technical College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in Georgia list. Located in Lawrenceville, Georgia, this medium-sized public school handed out 8 degrees to qualified associates’s design engineering tech students in 2019-2020.

GTC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Gwinnett Technical College is $11,110 for georgia associate degree design engineering tech students.

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#2

Georgia Northwestern Technical College

Rome, Georgia

#2 in overall quality

$2,148 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Northwestern Technical College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in Georgia list. This medium-sized school is located in Rome, Georgia, and it awarded 4 associates’s design engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Georgia Northwestern Technical College also took the #2 spot in our “Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Georgia Northwestern Technical College is $2,148 for georgia associate degree design engineering tech students.

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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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