2022 Best Value Engineering-Related Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Engineering-Related Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Engineering-Related Technologies is the 273rd most popular major in the country with 884 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, engineering-related technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $55,300 and had an average of $12,619 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 79 engineering-related technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,300 and $12,619 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 engineering-related technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality engineering-related technologies 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 engineering-related technologies 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.

More Ways to Rank Engineering-Related Technologies Schools

The engineering-related tech school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Engineering-Related Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k”.

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Best Value Engineering-Related Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering-Related Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering-Related Technologies (Income $0-$30k) in the Plains States Region

#1

Saint Cloud State University

Saint Cloud, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$10,688 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Cloud State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering-Related Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, this fairly large public school handed out 13 degrees to qualified bachelors’s engineering-related tech students in 2019-2020.

St. Cloud State University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Engineering-Related Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Saint Cloud State University is $10,688 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Engineering-Related Tech students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read more about Engineering-Related Technologies at St. Cloud State University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering-Related Technologies (Income $0-$30k)

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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