2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 the Plains States region, there were 559 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,000 and $14,944 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 96 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general engineering programs that also have a lower cost than 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 a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Plains States Region

#1

Minnesota State University - Mankato

Mankato, Minnesota

#1 in overall quality

$16,221 Average Net Price

$60,206 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Minnesota State University - Mankato. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region list. Located in Mankato, Minnesota, this fairly large public school handed out 39 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s engineering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Minnesota State Mankato, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $16,221 for plains states region bachelor’s degree engineering students per year to attend Minnesota State University - Mankato.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Engineering at Minnesota State Mankato

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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.

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

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