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2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Getting Aid

4 Ranked Colleges
131 Degrees Awarded
$25,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in Texas For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Getting Aid” 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 Getting Aid” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general engineering programs that also have a lower cost than 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 Texas For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Getting Aid.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Texas (With Aid)

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at El Paso. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Getting Aid list. El Paso, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s engineering degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our texas bachelor’s degree engineering students with aid list, UTEP has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for The University of Texas at El Paso is $8,920 for texas bachelor’s degree engineering students with aid.

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#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Getting Aid. Texas A&M 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.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Texas A&M College Station, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. It costs about $19,057 for texas bachelor’s degree engineering students with aid per year to attend Texas A&M University - College Station.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.

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#3

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Christian University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Getting Aid. TCU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Fort Worth, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 55 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

TCU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list. It costs about $36,811 for Texas Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students with aid per year to attend Texas Christian University.

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

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#4

Baylor University

Waco, Texas
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baylor University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Waco, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 12 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s engineering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Baylor, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Baylor is $36,039 for texas bachelor’s degree engineering students with aid.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 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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