2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Drafting & Design Engineering Technology in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Drafting & Design Engineering Technology is the 142nd most popular major in the country with 9,770 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 the Southwest region, there were 1,714 drafting and design engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,675 and $14,204 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 drafting and design engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality drafting and design engineering technology programs that also have a lower cost than 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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree design engineering tech students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Drafting & Design Engineering Technology in the Southwest Region

#1

Sam Houston State University

Huntsville, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$14,617 Average Net Price

$47,260 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sam Houston State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Huntsville, Texas, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s design engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at SHSU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Sam Houston State University is $14,617 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Design Engineering Tech students.

Read more about Drafting & Design Engineering Technology at Sam Houston State 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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