2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Louisiana

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 a Bachelor’s in Louisiana” 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 Louisiana, there were 196 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 94 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,417 and $24,684 respectively.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Louisiana” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. 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 a Bachelor’s in Louisiana

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Louisiana.

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

#1

McNeese State University

Lake Charles, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$12,267 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, McNeese State University landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and it awarded 94 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

McNeese not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Louisiana” list. It costs about $12,267 for Louisiana Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students per year to attend McNeese State University.

Read more about General Engineering at McNeese

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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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