2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Pre-Engineering in Utah

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pre-Engineering Major in Utah” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Pre-Engineering is the 284th most popular major in the country with 2,437 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Utah, there were 24 pre-engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 24 pre-engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,685 and $18,758 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pre-Engineering Major in Utah” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in pre-engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in pre-engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pre-Engineering Major in Utah” list to help you make the college decision.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pre-Engineering Major in Utah

The colleges and universities below are the best for utah associate degree pre-engineering students.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Pre-Engineering in Utah

1

Utah Valley University
Orem, Utah

#6 overall quality in Utah

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Utah Valley University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pre-Engineering Major in Utah list. Orem, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s pre-engineering degrees to 20 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Pre-Engineering at UVU

2

Salt Lake Community College
Salt Lake City, Utah

#8 overall quality in Utah

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pre-Engineering Major in Utah that were part of this year’s ranking, Salt Lake Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, this large public school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified associates’s pre-engineering students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Pre-Engineering at Salt Lake Community College

3

Dixie State University
Saint George, Utah

#10 overall quality in Utah

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dixie State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Pre-Engineering Major in Utah list. Dixie State College is a fairly large school located in Saint George, Utah that handed out 1 associates’s pre-engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Pre-Engineering at Dixie State University

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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

• *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.

Credits

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