2022 Best Value Welding Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

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Welding Engineering Technology is the 865th most popular major in the country with 274 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 66 welding engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Welding Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in welding engineering technology/technician. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality welding engineering technology/technician 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 welding engineering technology/technician 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.

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Best Value Welding Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Welding Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Welding Engineering Technology (With Aid)

#1

Brigham Young University - Idaho

Rexburg, Idaho

#2 in overall quality

$7,167 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Welding Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Brigham Young University - Idaho landed the #1 spot on the list. Brigham Young University - Idaho is a large school located in Rexburg, Idaho that handed out 14 bachelors’s welding engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

BYU - I did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Welding Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Brigham Young University - Idaho is $7,167 for Bachelor’s Degree Welding Engineering Tech students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Welding Engineering Technology at BYU - I

#2

Pennsylvania College of Technology

Williamsport, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$25,794 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pennsylvania College of Technology. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Welding Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid. This small school is located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 50 bachelors’s welding engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Penn College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Welding Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Penn College is $25,794 for bachelor’s degree welding engineering tech students with aid.

Read full report on Welding Engineering Technology at Penn College

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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