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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 Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 969 people earned their degree in engineering-related technologies, making the major the 270th most popular in the United States. In , engineering-related technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $57,339 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 46 engineering-related technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the New England Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Gateway Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the New England Region. Gateway Community College is a medium-sized school located in New Haven, Connecticut that handed out 7 ’s engineering-related tech degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Engineering-Related Technologies at Gateway Community College
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Maine is located in Orono, Maine and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 31 ’s engineering-related tech degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full University of Maine Engineering-Related Technologies Report
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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%.
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- *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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