2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electromechanical Engineering in the New England Region

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 Electromechanical Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Electromechanical Engineering is the 345th most popular major in the country with 53 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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.

Across the New England region, there were 23 electromechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,700 and $31,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 electromechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 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 in the New England Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Electromechanical Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electromechanical Engineering in the New England Region

#1

Wentworth Institute of Technology

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$36,113 Average Net Price

$70,456 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Electromechanical Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wentworth Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s electromechanical engineering degrees to 23 students in 2019-2020.

WIT not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Electromechanical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Wentworth Institute of Technology is $36,113 for new england region bachelor’s degree electromechanical engineering students.

The low student loan default rate of 3.0% 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 full report on Electromechanical Engineering at WIT

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electromechanical 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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