2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 the Southeast region, there were 2,232 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 614 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.

One of our other unique offerings is College Combat. This tool lets you build your own customized comparisons utilizing the factors that are most important to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree engineering students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Southeast Region

#1

Northern Virginia Community College

Annandale, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$10,005 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern Virginia Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Northern Virginia Community College is a large school located in Annandale, Virginia that handed out 183 associates’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region associate degree engineering students list, Northern Virginia Community College has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Northern Virginia Community College is $10,005 for southeast region associate degree engineering students.

Read full report on General Engineering at Northern Virginia Community College

#2

Tidewater Community College

Norfolk, Virginia

#2 in overall quality

$8,408 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tidewater Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Tidewater Community College is a fairly large school located in Norfolk, Virginia that handed out 99 associates’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Tidewater Community College also made our “Best General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend Tidewater Community College is $8,408 for southeast region associate degree engineering students.

Read full report on General Engineering at Tidewater Community College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering

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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