by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Virginia” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Engineering Technologies is the 20th most popular major in the country with 85,188 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, engineering technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $52,350 and had an average of $21,560 in loans still to pay off.
Across Virginia, there were 2,049 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,691 and $25,257 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 458 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,553 and $27,844 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Virginia” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in engineering technologies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their engineering technologies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia bachelor’s degree engineering tech students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Virginia. Located in Petersburg, Virginia, this small public school handed out 43 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s engineering tech students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, ECPI University landed the #2 spot on the list. ECPI University is a fairly large school located in Virginia Beach, Virginia that handed out 179 bachelors’s engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Old Dominion University landed the #3 spot on the list. Old Dominion University is a large school located in Norfolk, Virginia that handed out 167 bachelors’s engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Norfolk State University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Virginia. This medium-sized school is located in Norfolk, Virginia, and it awarded 21 bachelors’s engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Management and Technology. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Virginia list. Arlington, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering tech degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Virginia Tech ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Virginia list. Blacksburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s engineering tech degrees to 43 students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
DeVry University - Virginia ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in Virginia list. Arlington, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering tech degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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