2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 989 people earned their degree in engineering-related technologies, making the major the 270th most popular in the United States. 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 Plains States region, there were 152 engineering-related technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,729 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 engineering-related technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering-related technologies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in engineering-related technologies.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree engineering-related tech students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering-Related Technologies in the Plains States Region

1

William Penn University
Oskaloosa, Iowa

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend William Penn University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Plains States Region list. William Penn University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Oskaloosa, Iowa. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Engineering-Related Technologies at William Penn University

2

Saint Cloud State University
Saint Cloud, Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Cloud State University landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s engineering-related tech degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Saint Cloud State University Engineering-Related Technologies Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering-Related Technologies

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

• *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.

Credits

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