2022 Best Value Engineering-Related Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Engineering-Related Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 884 people earned their degree in engineering-related technologies, making the major the 273rd most popular in the United States. 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.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great engineering-related technologies 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 technologies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Engineering-Related Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Engineering-Related Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k

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 $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering-Related Technologies (Income $48-$75k) in the Plains States Region

#1

Saint Cloud State University

Saint Cloud, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$13,373 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering-Related Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Cloud State University landed the #1 spot on the list. St. Cloud State University is located in Saint Cloud, Minnesota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 13 bachelors’s engineering-related tech degrees to qualified students.

St. Cloud State University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Engineering-Related Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Saint Cloud State University is $13,373 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Engineering-Related Tech students whose families make $48-$75k.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering-Related Technologies (Income $48-$75k)

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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