2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Texas

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Texas” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 associate degree level specifically, there were 423 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Texas” ranking analyzed 2 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.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Texas” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Texas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Texas.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Texas

#1

Austin Community College District

Austin, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$6,861 Average Net Price

$36,134 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Austin Community College District. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Texas list. This large school is located in Austin, Texas, and it awarded 81 associates’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Austin Community College District not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in Texas” list. The estimated yearly cost for Austin Community College District is $6,861 for Texas Associate Degree Engineering students.

Read more about General Engineering at Austin Community College District

#2

Northwest Vista College

San Antonio, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$5,413 Average Net Price

$28,960 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwest Vista College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Texas. San Antonio, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s engineering degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

Northwest Vista College also made our “Best General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in Texas” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $5,413 for Texas Associate Degree Engineering students per year to attend Northwest Vista College.

Read more about General Engineering at Northwest Vista College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Southwest Region
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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.

Credits

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

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