2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Engineering is the 83rd most popular major in the country with 9,411 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Arkansas, there were 148 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 40 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,332 and $22,750 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general engineering 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 program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas

The colleges and universities below are the best for arkansas bachelor’s degree engineering students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Arkansas

#1

John Brown University

Siloam Springs, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$21,963 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend John Brown University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas. Siloam Springs, Arkansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering degrees to 19 students in 2019-2020.

JBU also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for John Brown University is $21,963 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full John Brown University 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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