2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering in New York

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 Schools for an Associate in New York” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 9,411 people earned their degree in general engineering, making the major the 83rd most popular in the United States.

Across New York, there were 568 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 416 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,640 and $14,770 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in New York” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general engineering programs and cost less that 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 program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in New York

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in New York.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering in New York

#1

Monroe Community College

Rochester, New York

#1 in overall quality

$6,830 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Monroe Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in New York list. Monroe Community College is a fairly large school located in Rochester, New York that handed out 50 associates’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Monroe Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in New York” list. The estimated yearly cost for Monroe Community College is $6,830 for New York Associate Degree Engineering students.

Read full report on General Engineering at Monroe Community College

#2

College of Staten Island CUNY

Staten Island, New York

#2 in overall quality

$5,118 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend College of Staten Island CUNY. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in New York. CSI is a fairly large public school situated in Staten Island, New York. It awarded 6 associates’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at CSI, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in New York” ranking. It costs about $5,118 for New York Associate Degree Engineering students per year to attend CSI.

Full College of Staten Island CUNY General Engineering Report

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Rémi Kaupp.

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