2022 Best Value EE Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

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In 2019-2020, 29,892 people earned their degree in electrical engineering, making the major the 26th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 3,707 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 26 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value EE Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree ee students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in the Southwest Region

#1

Austin Community College District

Austin, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$6,861 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Austin Community College District. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value EE Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. Located in Austin, Texas, this large public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified associates’s EE students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region associate degree ee students list, Austin Community College District has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Electrical Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Austin Community College District is $6,861 for Southwest Region Associate Degree EE students.

Read more about Electrical Engineering at Austin Community College District

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering

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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