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2022 Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid

5 Ranked Colleges
201 Degrees Awarded
$15,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor's in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Chemical Engineering is the 53rd most popular major in the country with 13,314 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Tennessee, there were 225 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 201 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in chemical engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality chemical engineering 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 chemical engineering 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 Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Chemical Engineering in Tennessee (With Aid)

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, this fairly large public school handed out 23 degrees to qualified bachelors’s chem eng students in 2019-2020.

UT Chattanooga also took the #4 spot in our “Best Chemical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UT Chattanooga is $12,952 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree Chem Eng students with aid.

Read more about Chemical Engineering at UT Chattanooga

#2

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vanderbilt University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid list. Vanderbilt is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 41 bachelors’s chem eng degrees in 2019-2020.

Vanderbilt also made our “Best Chemical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Vanderbilt University is $19,432 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree Chem Eng students with aid.

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. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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#3

Tennessee Technological University

Cookeville, Tennessee
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tennessee Technological University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid list. Tennessee Technological University is a fairly large school located in Cookeville, Tennessee that handed out 61 bachelors’s chem eng degrees in 2019-2020.

Tennessee Tech University also made our “Best Chemical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $15,929 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree Chem Eng students with aid per year to attend Tennessee Tech University.

The low student loan default rate of 4.8% 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%.

Full Tennessee Tech University Chemical Engineering Report

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid. The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is a large public school situated in Knoxville, Tennessee. It awarded 74 bachelors’s chem eng degrees in 2019-2020.

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

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The low student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%.

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#5

Christian Brothers University

Memphis, Tennessee
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Christian Brothers University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Memphis, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s chem eng students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Christian Brothers, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Chemical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. It costs about $11,900 for tennessee bachelor’s degree chem eng students with aid per year to attend Christian Brothers.

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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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