2022 Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid” 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 Pennsylvania, there were 52 general engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 general engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general engineering science 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 general engineering science program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree engineering science students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Science in Pennsylvania (With Aid)

#1

University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$27,938 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s engineering science students in 2019-2020.

Pitt did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Engineering Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. It costs about $27,938 for Pennsylvania Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Science students with aid per year to attend Pitt.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Science (With Aid)

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nicolás Pérez.

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