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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Engineering-Related Technologies is the 270th most popular major in the country with 989 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, engineering-related technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $57,339 and had an average of $21,670 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 138 engineering-related technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 34 engineering-related technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in engineering-related technologies. That schools that top this list have a program in engineering-related technologies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Cincinnati State Technical and Community College is a medium-sized public school situated in Cincinnati, Ohio. It awarded 21 bachelors’s engineering-related tech degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Cincinnati State Engineering-Related Technologies Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Akron Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region. University of Akron Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Akron, Ohio. It awarded 13 bachelors’s engineering-related tech degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Engineering-Related Technologies at University of Akron Main Campus
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Siena Heights University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region. Siena Heights University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Adrian, Michigan. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Engineering-Related Technologies at Siena Heights University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Columbus, Ohio, this large public school awarded 8 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s engineering-related tech students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Engineering-Related Technologies at Ohio State
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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