2022 Best Value Electromechanical Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Electromechanical Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 53 people earned their degree in electromechanical engineering, making the major the 345th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, electromechanical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $63,700 and had an average of $31,000 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 electromechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent electromechanical engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the electromechanical 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Electromechanical Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Electromechanical Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree electromechanical engineering students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electromechanical Engineering

#1

Wentworth Institute of Technology

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$36,113 Average Net Price

$70,456 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wentworth Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Electromechanical Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Wentworth Institute of Technology is a small school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 23 bachelors’s electromechanical engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at WIT, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Electromechanical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for WIT is $36,113 for bachelor’s degree electromechanical engineering 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%.

Read more about Electromechanical Engineering at Wentworth Institute of Technology

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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