2022 Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for an Associate

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Engineering-Related Fields is the 120th most popular major in the country with 6,319 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, engineering-related fields graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $73,026 and had an average of $26,903 in loans still to pay off.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 73 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for an Associate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in engineering-related fields. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great engineering-related fields 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 engineering-related fields 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 Engineering-Related Fields Schools for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree engineering-related fields students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Engineering-Related Fields

#1

Lakeshore Technical College

Cleveland, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$10,780 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lakeshore Technical College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for an Associate. This small school is located in Cleveland, Wisconsin, and it awarded 21 associates’s engineering-related fields degrees in 2019-2020.

LTC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering-Related Fields Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Lakeshore Technical College is $10,780 for associate degree engineering-related fields students.

Read full report on Engineering-Related Fields at LTC

#2

Grantham University

Lenexa, Kansas

#2 in overall quality

$8,409 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Grantham University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools for an Associate. Grantham University is a private for-profit institution located in Lenexa, Kansas. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 11 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Grantham University also made our “Best Engineering-Related Fields Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $8,409 for associate degree engineering-related fields students per year to attend Grantham University.

Read more about Engineering-Related Fields at Grantham University

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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