2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value EE Schools for an Associate” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 241 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value EE Schools for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the electrical 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.

More Ways to Rank Electrical Engineering Schools

The ee 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 EE Schools for an Associate”.

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Best Value EE Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value EE Schools for an Associate.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering

#1

Chemeketa Community College

Salem, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$5,965 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Chemeketa Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value EE Schools for an Associate list. This medium-sized school is located in Salem, Oregon, and it awarded 7 associates’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

Chemeketa Community College also made our “Best Electrical Engineering Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $5,965 for associate degree ee students per year to attend Chemeketa Community College.

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#2

Austin Community College District

Austin, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$6,861 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Austin Community College District. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value EE Schools for an Associate. Austin, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s EE degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

Austin Community College District also took the #2 spot in our “Best Electrical Engineering Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Austin Community College District is $6,861 for Associate Degree EE students.

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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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to NASA.

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