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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Physics in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

4 Ranked Colleges
40 Degrees Awarded
$21,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor's in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Engineering Physics is the 239th most popular major in the country with 941 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, engineering physics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $59,675 and had an average of $20,001 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 40 engineering physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 40 engineering physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in engineering physics. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality engineering physics 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 engineering physics program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree engineering physics students with aid.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Physics in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Minnesota - Duluth landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Minnesota - Duluth is a public institution located in Duluth, Minnesota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UMN Duluth also took the #4 spot in our “Best Engineering Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $17,067 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Physics students with aid per year to attend UMN Duluth.

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%.

Full UMN Duluth Engineering Physics Report

#2

Loras College

Dubuque, Iowa

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Loras College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. Dubuque, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering physics degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

Loras not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Engineering Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $20,676 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Physics students with aid per year to attend Loras College.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Engineering Physics at Loras College

#3

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kansas. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Lawrence, Kansas, this large public school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s engineering physics students in 2019-2020.

KU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Engineering Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The yearly cost to attend KU is $18,918 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Physics students with aid.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read more about Engineering Physics at University of Kansas

#4

Saint Louis University

Saint Louis, Missouri
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Louis University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Engineering Physics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s engineering physics students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our plains states region bachelor’s degree engineering physics students with aid list, SLU has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Engineering Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Saint Louis University is $28,188 for plains states region bachelor’s degree engineering physics students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 2.9% 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%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Engineering Physics at Saint Louis University

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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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