2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology in New Mexico

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in New Mexico” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 4,195 people earned their degree in general engineering technology, making the major the 155th most popular in the United States. 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank General Engineering Technology Schools

The engineering tech school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in New Mexico”.

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Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in New Mexico

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in New Mexico.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology in New Mexico

#1

San Juan College

Farmington, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$6,115 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, San Juan College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Farmington, New Mexico, this medium-sized public school awarded 1 degrees to qualified associates’s engineering tech students in 2019-2020.

SJC also made our “Best General Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $6,115 for New Mexico Associate Degree Engineering Tech students per year to attend San Juan College.

Read more about General Engineering Technology at SJC

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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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