2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Science (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

General Engineering Science is the 337th most popular major in the country with 1,668 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 168 general engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 85 general engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

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

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general engineering science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Science (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$3,156 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Vanderbilt University landed the #1 spot on the list. Vanderbilt is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 55 bachelors’s engineering science degrees in 2019-2020.

Vanderbilt did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Engineering Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Vanderbilt is $3,156 for southeast region bachelor’s degree engineering science students whose families make $0-$30k.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Engineering Science at Vanderbilt University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Science (Income $0-$30k)

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.

Credits

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