2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin” 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 Wisconsin, there were 245 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $93,050 and $20,092 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general engineering programs and cost less that 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin

The colleges and universities below are the best for wisconsin bachelor’s degree engineering students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Wisconsin

#1

Milwaukee School of Engineering

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$24,440 Average Net Price

$73,215 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Milwaukee School of Engineering. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin. MSOE is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It awarded 3 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

MSOE not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” list. The estimated yearly cost for Milwaukee School of Engineering is $24,440 for Wisconsin Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students.

The low student loan default rate of 1.8% 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%.

Full MSOE General Engineering Report

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• Best Value Bachelor’s 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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