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2022 Best Value Engineering Schools in Minnesota For Those Making $30-$48k

1 Ranked Colleges
242 Degrees Awarded
$11,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Engineering Schools in Minnesota For Those Making $30-$48k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 in Minnesota For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Engineering is the 78th most popular major in the country with 11,925 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Minnesota, there were 242 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,000 and $14,944 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general engineering programs, but they also 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.

More Ways to Rank General Engineering Schools

The engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Engineering Schools in Minnesota For Those Making $30-$48k”.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Engineering Schools in Minnesota For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for minnesota engineering students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for General Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in Minnesota

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 Best Value Engineering Schools in Minnesota For Those Making $30-$48k. Minnesota State Mankato is a fairly large public school situated in Mankato, Minnesota. It awarded 48 ’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Minnesota State Mankato did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Engineering Schools in Minnesota” list. The yearly cost to attend Minnesota State University - Mankato is $11,781 for Minnesota Engineering students whose families make $30-$48k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Minnesota State Mankato General Engineering Report

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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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