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

5 Ranked Colleges
210 Degrees Awarded
$18,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor's in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Electrical Engineering is the 31st most popular major in the country with 30,670 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, electrical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $70,098 and had an average of $23,581 in loans still to pay off.

Across Minnesota, there were 340 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,050 and $23,181 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 210 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,526 and $26,035 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in electrical engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality electrical engineering programs that also have a lower cost than 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 electrical engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

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

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

#1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Minneapolis, Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid list. UMN Twin Cities is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 88 bachelors’s EE degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMN Twin Cities, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Minnesota” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is $17,740 for Minnesota Bachelor’s Degree EE students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 2.2% 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 Minnesota - Twin Cities Electrical Engineering Report

#2

Saint Cloud State University

Saint Cloud, Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Cloud State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid list. Saint Cloud State University is a fairly large public school situated in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. It awarded 29 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at St. Cloud State University, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Minnesota” ranking. It costs about $14,267 for Minnesota Bachelor’s Degree EE students with aid per year to attend St. Cloud State University.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at St. Cloud State University

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Minnesota State University - Mankato landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Mankato, Minnesota, this fairly large public school awarded 30 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s EE students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our minnesota bachelor’s degree ee students with aid list, Minnesota State Mankato has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Minnesota” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Minnesota State Mankato is $16,221 for Minnesota Bachelor’s Degree EE students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 4.4% 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 Minnesota State University - Mankato Electrical Engineering Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Minnesota - Duluth. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid list. UMN Duluth is a fairly large public school situated in Duluth, Minnesota. It awarded 44 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our minnesota bachelor’s degree ee students with aid list, UMN Duluth has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Minnesota” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UMN Duluth is $17,067 for minnesota bachelor’s degree ee students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%.

Read more about Electrical Engineering at UMN Duluth

#5

University of St Thomas Minnesota

Saint Paul, Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of St Thomas Minnesota. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Minnesota For Those Getting Aid list. UST MN is a medium-sized school located in Saint Paul, Minnesota that handed out 18 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

UST MN also took the #2 spot in our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Minnesota” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of St Thomas Minnesota is $29,155 for Minnesota Bachelor’s Degree EE students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Electrical Engineering at UST MN

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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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