2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology in Louisiana

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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Louisiana” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 4,676 people earned their degree in general engineering technology, making the major the 156th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, general engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $53,419 and had an average of $23,567 in loans still to pay off.

Across Louisiana, there were 60 general engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,526 and $34,618 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 7 general engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,648 and $22,451 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Louisiana” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general engineering technology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general engineering technology.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Louisiana

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Louisiana”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology in Louisiana

1

Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Natchitoches, Louisiana

#15 overall quality in Louisiana

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern State University of Louisiana landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Natchitoches, Louisiana, this fairly large public school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified associates’s engineering tech students in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Engineering Technology at NSU

2

Southern University at Shreveport
Shreveport, Louisiana

#22 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern University at Shreveport. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Louisiana list. Southern University at Shreveport is a small public school situated in Shreveport, Louisiana. It awarded 0 associates’s engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Engineering Technology at Southern University at Shreveport

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Associate 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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