2022 Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

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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.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general engineering science 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 general engineering science 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 Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

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 $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Science (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$8,086 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Vanderbilt is a fairly large school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 55 bachelors’s engineering science degrees in 2019-2020.

Vanderbilt also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Engineering Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $8,086 for southeast region bachelor’s degree engineering science students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Vanderbilt.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low student loan default rate of 1.0% 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%.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Science (Income $48-$75k)

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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