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2022 Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois

5 Ranked Colleges
160 Degrees Awarded
$17,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor's in Illinois

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 a Bachelor’s in Illinois” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 4,056 people earned their degree in engineering technology, making the major the 196th most popular in the United States.

Across Illinois, there were 201 engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 160 engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,319 and $24,183 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in engineering technology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality engineering technology 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 engineering technology program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technology in Illinois

#1

Illinois State University

Normal, Illinois
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Illinois State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois. Located in Normal, Illinois, this large public school handed out 33 degrees to qualified bachelors’s engineering tech students in 2019-2020.

Illinois State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. The estimated yearly cost for Illinois State University is $20,895 for illinois bachelor’s degree engineering technology students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Engineering Technology at Illinois State University

#2

Northern Illinois University

Dekalb, Illinois
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Illinois University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois list. Located in Dekalb, Illinois, this fairly large public school awarded 101 degrees to qualified bachelors’s engineering tech students in 2019-2020.

NIU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. It costs about $18,259 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Technology students per year to attend NIU.

Read more about Engineering Technology at NIU

#3

Western Illinois University

Macomb, Illinois
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Illinois University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois. Western Illinois University is a medium-sized public school situated in Macomb, Illinois. It awarded 23 bachelors’s engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

WIU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. It costs about $16,210 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Technology students per year to attend Western Illinois University.

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#4

Eastern Illinois University

Charleston, Illinois
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Illinois University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois. Charleston, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s engineering tech degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

EIU also took the #5 spot in our “Best Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Eastern Illinois University is $14,607 for Illinois Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Technology students.

Read full report on Engineering Technology at Eastern Illinois University

#4 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Carbondale, Illinois, this fairly large public school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s engineering tech students in 2019-2020.

SIUC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. It costs about $16,945 for illinois bachelor’s degree engineering technology students per year to attend SIUC.

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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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