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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technology in the Middle Atlantic Region

5 Ranked Colleges
299 Degrees Awarded
$25,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor's in the Middle Atlantic Region

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 the Middle Atlantic Region” 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 the Middle Atlantic region, there were 390 engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 299 engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in engineering technology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent engineering technology programs, but they also 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree engineering technology students.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technology in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Jersey Institute of Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region. New Jersey Institute of Technology is located in Newark, New Jersey and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 214 bachelors’s engineering tech degrees to qualified students.

NJIT not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for NJIT is $19,706 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree engineering technology students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Engineering Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology

#2

Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Temple University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this large public school awarded 26 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s engineering tech students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Temple, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Temple University is $23,521 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree engineering technology students.

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

Full Temple University Engineering Technology Report

#3

New York Institute of Technology

Old Westbury, New York
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New York Institute of Technology landed the #3 spot on the list. Old Westbury, New York is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering tech degrees to 19 students in 2019-2020.

NYIT also made our “Best Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #5. It costs about $21,427 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Technology students per year to attend NYIT.

The low student loan default rate of 4.4% 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 more about Engineering Technology at NYIT

#4

Drexel University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Drexel University landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 22 degrees to qualified bachelors’s engineering tech students in 2019-2020.

Drexel also took the #3 spot in our “Best Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Drexel is $34,914 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Technology students.

With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 2.3% 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 more about Engineering Technology at Drexel University

#5

University of Rochester

Rochester, New York
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rochester. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. University of Rochester is a private not-for-profit institution located in Rochester, New York. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 18 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Rochester also took the #2 spot in our “Best Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Rochester is $29,522 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Technology students.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Full University of Rochester Engineering Technology Report

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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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