2022 Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Wisconsin, there were 58 general engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,700 and $25,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 58 general engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology in Wisconsin

#1

University of Wisconsin - Stout

Menomonie, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$15,839 Average Net Price

$59,610 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Stout. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin. UW - Stout is a public institution located in Menomonie, Wisconsin. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 58 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UW - Stout also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” ranking. It costs about $15,839 for Wisconsin Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Tech students per year to attend UW - Stout.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Engineering Technology at UW - Stout

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology in the Great Lakes Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology

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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