2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Surveying Technology/Surveying in California

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Surveying Schools for a Bachelor’s in California” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Surveying Technology/Surveying is the 615th most popular major in the country with 792 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across California, there were 90 surveying technology/surveying graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 surveying technology/surveying graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,907 and $21,546 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality surveying technology/surveying programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the surveying technology/surveying program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Surveying Schools for a Bachelor’s in California” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Surveying Schools for a Bachelor’s in California

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Surveying Schools for a Bachelor’s in California.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Surveying Technology/Surveying in California

#1

California State University - Fresno

Fresno, California

#1 in overall quality

$5,464 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Surveying Schools for a Bachelor’s in California that were part of this year’s ranking, California State University - Fresno landed the #1 spot on the list. Fresno State is a public institution located in Fresno, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Fresno State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Surveying Technology/Surveying Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Fresno State is $5,464 for California Bachelor’s Degree Surveying students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The low student loan default rate of 4.7% 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%.

Read full report on Surveying Technology/Surveying at California State University - Fresno

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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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