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2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid

6 Ranked Colleges
288 Degrees Awarded
$21,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor's in Colorado For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Electrical Engineering is the 26th most popular major in the country with 29,892 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Colorado, there were 505 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 288 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,261 and $25,672 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in electrical engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great electrical engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the electrical engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado bachelor’s degree ee students with aid.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Colorado (With Aid)

#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid list. Denver, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s EE degrees to 53 students in 2019-2020.

CU Anschutz not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. It costs about $15,358 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree EE students with aid per year to attend CU Anschutz.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus

#3 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado State University - Fort Collins landed the #2 spot on the list. Colorado State University - Fort Collins is a large school located in Fort Collins, Colorado that handed out 56 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

Colorado State also made our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list, coming in at #3. The yearly cost to attend Colorado State is $18,668 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree EE students with aid.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Colorado State University - Fort Collins Electrical Engineering Report

#3

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, Colorado
#6 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs landed the #3 spot on the list. UCCS is a fairly large school located in Colorado Springs, Colorado that handed out 37 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

UCCS also made our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list, coming in at #6. The yearly cost to attend University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is $16,486 for colorado bachelor’s degree ee students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at UCCS

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado Boulder. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Boulder, Colorado, this large public school handed out 45 degrees to qualified bachelors’s EE students in 2019-2020.

CU - Boulder did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Colorado Boulder is $21,680 for colorado bachelor’s degree ee students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder

#5

Colorado School of Mines

Golden, Colorado
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado School of Mines landed the #5 spot on the list. Mines is a medium-sized school located in Golden, Colorado that handed out 77 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

Mines not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. The estimated yearly cost for Mines is $26,750 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree EE students with aid.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Mines Electrical Engineering Report

#6

University of Denver

Denver, Colorado
#4 in overall quality

University of Denver ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid list. DU is a fairly large school located in Denver, Colorado that handed out 7 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

DU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Denver is $32,361 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree EE students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.

Full University of Denver Electrical Engineering 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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