2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Plains States Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Engineering is the 96th most popular major in the country with 9,018 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Plains States region, there were 325 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 $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 14 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful general engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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Most Well Attended Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree engineering students.
Top 14 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Plains States Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Minnesota State University - Mankato. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s. Minnesota State University - Mankato is located in Mankato, Minnesota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 34 bachelors’s engineering degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Minnesota State University - Mankato General Engineering Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Northwestern - St Paul. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s list. This small school is located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Northwestern - St Paul General Engineering Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Doane University. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s. Crete, Nebraska is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Doane Crete General Engineering Report
Out of the 14 schools in the Most Well Attended Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, College of the Ozarks landed the #4 spot on the list. Hard Work U is a small school located in Point Lookout, Missouri that handed out 9 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on General Engineering at College of the Ozarks
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Loras College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s list. Dubuque, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about General Engineering at Loras College
Out of the 14 schools in the Most Well Attended Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Cornell College landed the #5 spot on the list. Cornell College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Mount Vernon, Iowa. It awarded 8 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Cornell College General Engineering Report
Ottawa University - Ottawa did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s ranking, coming in at #7. Ottawa, Kansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on General Engineering at Ottawa
Central College landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s ranking. Located in Pella, Iowa, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s engineering students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about General Engineering at Central
With a ranking of #9, University of Mary did quite well on the 2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Bismarck, North Dakota, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s engineering students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Engineering at University of Mary
Washington University in St Louis did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s ranking, coming in at #10. This fairly large school is located in Saint Louis, Missouri, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about General Engineering at WUSTL
University of Nebraska - Lincoln came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Most Well Attended Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s ranking. This large school is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and it awarded 48 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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 more about General Engineering at UNL
Dordt University landed the #10 spot on the 2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s ranking. Sioux Center, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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 more about General Engineering at Dordt
With a ranking of #10, Winona State University did quite well on the 2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Winona, Minnesota, this medium-sized public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s engineering students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Winona State University General Engineering Report
University of Iowa did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s ranking, coming in at #10. This large school is located in Iowa City, Iowa, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on General Engineering at University of Iowa
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.
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