2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region

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 for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic 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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 2,147 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,507 and $21,746 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1,073 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,733 and $16,201 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 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 an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region associate degree engineering students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Monroe Community College

Rochester, New York

#1 in overall quality

$6,830 Average Net Price

$26,353 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Monroe Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Monroe Community College is a fairly large public school situated in Rochester, New York. It awarded 50 associates’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region associate degree engineering students list, Monroe Community College has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Monroe Community College is $6,830 for Middle Atlantic Region Associate Degree Engineering students.

Read more about General Engineering at Monroe Community College

#2

College of Staten Island CUNY

Staten Island, New York

#2 in overall quality

$5,118 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend College of Staten Island CUNY. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Staten Island, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s engineering degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

CSI also made our “Best General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend College of Staten Island CUNY is $5,118 for middle atlantic region associate degree engineering students.

Read more about General Engineering at CSI

• 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.

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