2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology (Income $0-$30k) in New Mexico

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in New Mexico For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Engineering Technology is the 155th most popular major in the country with 4,195 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $49,903 and had an average of $20,609 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 53 general engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,400 and $20,125 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 5 general engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,995 and $14,826 respectively.

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

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in New Mexico For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in New Mexico For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in New Mexico For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology (Income $0-$30k) in New Mexico

#1

San Juan College

Farmington, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$5,586 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend San Juan College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in New Mexico For Those Making $0-$30k list. Farmington, New Mexico is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s engineering tech degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

SJC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico” list. It costs about $5,586 for New Mexico Associate Degree Engineering Tech students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend San Juan College.

Read more about General Engineering Technology at SJC

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology (Income $0-$30k)

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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