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2022 Best Value CE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee

7 Ranked Colleges
86 Degrees Awarded
$16,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value CE Schools for a Bachelor's in Tennessee

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 CE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Computer Engineering is the 60th most popular major in the country with 16,932 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, computer engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $68,762 and had an average of $25,829 in loans still to pay off.

Across Tennessee, there were 111 computer engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $16,221 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 86 computer engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value CE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee” ranking, we looked at 7 colleges that offer a degree in computer engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great computer engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the computer engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value CE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee

The colleges and universities below are the best for tennessee bachelor’s degree ce students.

Top 7 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computer Engineering in Tennessee

#1

Tennessee Technological University

Cookeville, Tennessee

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value CE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Tennessee Technological University landed the #1 spot on the list. Cookeville, Tennessee is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s CE degrees to 19 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our tennessee bachelor’s degree ce students list, Tennessee Tech University has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. It costs about $15,929 for tennessee bachelor’s degree ce students per year to attend Tennessee Technological University.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value CE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee. The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga is a public institution located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our tennessee bachelor’s degree ce students list, UT Chattanooga has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UT Chattanooga is $12,952 for tennessee bachelor’s degree ce students.

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#2 in overall quality

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value CE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville landed the #3 spot on the list. UT Knoxville is a large school located in Knoxville, Tennessee that handed out 14 bachelors’s CE degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our tennessee bachelor’s degree ce students list, UT Knoxville has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UT Knoxville is $18,825 for tennessee bachelor’s degree ce students.

With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Computer Engineering at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

#4

University of Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value CE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Memphis landed the #4 spot on the list. UofM is a public institution located in Memphis, Tennessee. The school has a large population, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UofM not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #7 on our “Best Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. The yearly cost to attend UofM is $13,248 for tennessee bachelor’s degree ce students.

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#5

Christian Brothers University

Memphis, Tennessee
#6 in overall quality

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value CE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Christian Brothers University landed the #5 spot on the list. Memphis, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s CE degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our tennessee bachelor’s degree ce students list, Christian Brothers has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Christian Brothers is $11,900 for tennessee bachelor’s degree ce students.

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#6

Lipscomb University

Nashville, Tennessee
#5 in overall quality

Lipscomb University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value CE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee list. Lipscomb is a private not-for-profit institution located in Nashville, Tennessee. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Lipscomb not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. The yearly cost to attend Lipscomb is $24,749 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree CE students.

The low student loan default rate of 3.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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#7

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee
#1 in overall quality

With a ranking of #7, Vanderbilt University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value CE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee list. This fairly large school is located in Nashville, Tennessee, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s CE degrees in 2019-2020.

Vanderbilt also took the #1 spot in our “Best Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. It costs about $19,432 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree CE students per year to attend Vanderbilt University.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.

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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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