2022 Best Value Welding Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Welding Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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.

This year’s “Best Value Welding Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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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The welding 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 Welding Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s”.

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Best Value Welding Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Welding Engineering Technology

#1

Brigham Young University - Idaho

Rexburg, Idaho

#2 in overall quality

$7,167 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brigham Young University - Idaho. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Welding Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s. Brigham Young University - Idaho is a private not-for-profit institution located in Rexburg, Idaho. The school has a large population, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

BYU - I also took the #2 spot in our “Best Welding Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for BYU - I is $7,167 for bachelor’s degree welding engineering tech students.

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%.

Full Brigham Young University - Idaho Welding Engineering Technology Report

#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. Pennsylvania College of Technology is a small public school situated in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. It awarded 50 bachelors’s welding engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Penn College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Welding Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Pennsylvania College of Technology is $25,794 for bachelor’s degree welding engineering tech students.

Full Pennsylvania College of Technology Welding Engineering Technology Report

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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