2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

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 “Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region” 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 1,754 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,330 and $24,526 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 603 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,508 and $17,812 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree engineering students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Sinclair Community College

Dayton, Ohio

#2 in overall quality

$4,208 Average Net Price

$32,925 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sinclair Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region list. Sinclair Community College is a fairly large school located in Dayton, Ohio that handed out 51 associates’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Sinclair Community College also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Sinclair Community College is $4,208 for great lakes region associate degree engineering students.

Full Sinclair Community College General Engineering Report

#2

Lake Superior State University

Sault Ste Marie, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$12,398 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lake Superior State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, this small public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified associates’s engineering students in 2019-2020.

Lake Superior State University also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Lake Superior State University is $12,398 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Engineering students.

Full Lake Superior State University General Engineering Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Rémi Kaupp.

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