2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in Montana

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 a Bachelor’s in Montana” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Engineering Technologies is the 19th most popular major in the country with 86,730 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, engineering technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $46,894 and had an average of $21,178 in loans still to pay off.

Across Montana, there were 157 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,000 and $26,444 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 92 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,286 and $23,603 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering technologies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent engineering technologies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the engineering technologies 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 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 a Bachelor’s in Montana”.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for montana bachelor’s degree engineering tech students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in Montana

#1

Montana State University

Bozeman, Montana

#1 in overall quality

$19,202 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana that were part of this year’s ranking, Montana State University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Bozeman, Montana, and it awarded 87 bachelors’s engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

MSU Bozeman also made our “Best Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Montana” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $19,202 for Montana Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Tech students per year to attend Montana State University.

Read full report on Engineering Technologies at Montana State University

#2

Montana State University - Northern

Havre, Montana

#2 in overall quality

$13,174 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana that were part of this year’s ranking, Montana State University - Northern landed the #2 spot on the list. Montana State University - Northern is a public institution located in Havre, Montana. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Montana State University - Northern also took the #2 spot in our “Best Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Montana” ranking. It costs about $13,174 for Montana Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Tech students per year to attend Montana State University - Northern.

Full Montana State University - Northern Engineering Technologies Report

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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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