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2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

6 Ranked Colleges
357 Degrees Awarded
$22,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest 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 a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” 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 the Southwest region, there were 1,480 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 357 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 6 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

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

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Southwest Region

#3 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #1 spot on the list. Arizona State University - Tempe is a large public school situated in Tempe, Arizona. It awarded 192 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

ASU - Tempe did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend ASU - Tempe is $11,706 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Full Arizona State University - Tempe General Engineering Report

#6 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at El Paso landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in El Paso, Texas, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UTEP also made our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #6. It costs about $8,920 for southwest region bachelor’s degree engineering students per year to attend UTEP.

Read more about General Engineering at UTEP

#3

Oral Roberts University

Tulsa, Oklahoma
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oral Roberts University landed the #3 spot on the list. Oral Roberts University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The school has a small population, and it awarded 33 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree engineering students list, ORU has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Oral Roberts University is $22,248 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students.

Full Oral Roberts University General Engineering Report

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - College Station. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Texas A&M University - College Station is a public institution located in College Station, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Texas A&M College Station also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $19,057 for southwest region bachelor’s degree engineering students per year to attend Texas A&M College Station.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 2.9% 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 General Engineering at Texas A&M University - College Station

#5

Baylor University

Waco, Texas
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Baylor University landed the #5 spot on the list. Waco, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

Baylor also made our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #4. The yearly cost to attend Baylor is $36,039 for southwest region bachelor’s degree engineering students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. 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%.

Read more about General Engineering at Baylor University

#6

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, Texas
#1 in overall quality

Texas Christian University landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. Texas Christian University is a fairly large school located in Fort Worth, Texas that handed out 55 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at TCU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $36,811 for southwest region bachelor’s degree engineering students per year to attend Texas Christian University.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Engineering at TCU

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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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