2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Engineering Technology in Kansas

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for an Associate in Kansas” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Engineering Technology is the 196th most popular major in the country with 4,056 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Kansas, there were 96 engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 8 engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,170 and $18,822 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great engineering technology 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 technology 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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Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for an Associate in Kansas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for an Associate in Kansas.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Engineering Technology in Kansas

#1

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas

#1 in overall quality

$18,285 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for an Associate in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas State University landed the #1 spot on the list. K -State is located in Manhattan, Kansas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 associates’s engineering tech degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at K -State, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in Kansas” ranking. It costs about $18,285 for Kansas Associate Degree Engineering Technology students per year to attend K -State.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

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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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