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2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k

4 Ranked Colleges
131 Degrees Awarded
$16,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 11,925 people earned their degree in general engineering, making the major the 78th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $66,152 and had an average of $20,077 in loans still to pay off.

Across Texas, there were 806 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,400 and $14,850 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 131 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered 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.

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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for texas bachelor’s degree engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in Texas

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - College Station. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k list. Texas A&M University - College Station is a large school located in College Station, Texas that handed out 6 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our texas bachelor’s degree engineering students whose families make $0-$30k list, Texas A&M College Station has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Texas A&M University - College Station is $11,454 for Texas Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

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%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read more about General Engineering at Texas A&M University - College Station

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at El Paso. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k list. This large school is located in El Paso, Texas, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UTEP not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list. The yearly cost to attend The University of Texas at El Paso is $7,092 for Texas Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read more about General Engineering at UTEP

#3

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, Texas

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Christian University landed the #3 spot on the list. Texas Christian University is located in Fort Worth, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 55 bachelors’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

TCU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list. The yearly cost to attend Texas Christian University is $21,286 for texas bachelor’s degree engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Texas Christian University General Engineering Report

#4

Baylor University

Waco, Texas
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baylor University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k. 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 did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list. The yearly cost to attend Baylor University is $26,726 for Texas Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 3.7% 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%.

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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.

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