2022 Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 North Carolina, there were 234 general engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,400 and $22,109 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 47 general engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,912 and $18,026 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general engineering technology programs, but they also cost less that 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 general engineering technology program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for north carolina associate degree engineering tech students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology in North Carolina (With Aid)

#1

Wilkes Community College

Wilkesboro, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$2,520 Average Net Price

$33,993 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Wilkes Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Wilkes Community College is a small school located in Wilkesboro, North Carolina that handed out 13 associates’s engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Wilkes Community College also made our “Best General Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Wilkes Community College is $2,520 for North Carolina Associate Degree Engineering Tech students with aid.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Wilkes Community College General Engineering Technology Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology in the Southeast Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology (With Aid)

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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