2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science 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 Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Engineering Science is the 208th most popular major in the country with 1,668 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, engineering science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $60,800 and had an average of $20,111 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 425 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,900 and $14,647 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 182 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering science. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent engineering science 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 engineering science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Engineering Science 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 engineering science students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science in the New England Region

#1

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts

#2 in overall quality

$15,386 Average Net Price

$70,456 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the #1 spot on the list. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering science degrees to 46 students in 2019-2020.

Harvard also took the #2 spot in our “Best Engineering Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Harvard is $15,386 for new england region bachelor’s degree engineering science students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 5 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 Science at Harvard

#2

Dartmouth College

Hanover, New Hampshire

#1 in overall quality

$33,574 Average Net Price

$81,702 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Dartmouth College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Hanover, New Hampshire, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 103 degrees to qualified bachelors’s engineering science students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Dartmouth, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Dartmouth College is $33,574 for new england region bachelor’s degree engineering science students.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. 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%.

Read full report on Engineering Science at Dartmouth College

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science

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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