2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Missouri

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Missouri” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Missouri, there were 196 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 118 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,631 and $21,057 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general engineering programs and 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.

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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 Missouri” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Missouri

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

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Missouri

#1

Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City

Kansas City, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$7,066 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Missouri list. Kansas City, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s engineering degrees to 36 students in 2019-2020.

MCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in Missouri” list. The yearly cost to attend MCC is $7,066 for Missouri Associate Degree Engineering students.

Read more about General Engineering at Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City

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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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