2022 Best Value EE Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value EE Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 30,670 people earned their degree in electrical engineering, making the major the 31st most popular in the United States. 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 the Far Western US region, there were 6,238 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,062 and $20,910 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 82 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,689 and $18,419 respectively.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value EE Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region associate degree ee students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in the Far Western US Region

#1

Chemeketa Community College

Salem, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$5,965 Average Net Price

$63,005 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value EE Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Chemeketa Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Salem, Oregon, and it awarded 7 associates’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

Chemeketa Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Electrical Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Chemeketa Community College is $5,965 for Far Western US Region Associate Degree EE students.

Read more about Electrical Engineering at Chemeketa Community College

• 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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