2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Arizona
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Ranked Colleges
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Arizona” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Engineering is the 79th most popular major in the country with 11,796 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,873 and had an average of $20,557 in loans still to pay off.
Across Arizona, there were 332 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,597 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 151 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,087 and $27,181 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Arizona” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general engineering.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Arizona
The colleges and universities below are the best for arizona bachelor’s degree engineering students.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Arizona
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Arizona that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #1 spot on the list. ASU - Tempe is located in Tempe, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 149 bachelors’s engineering degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Arizona State University - Tempe General Engineering Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grand Canyon University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Arizona list. Grand Canyon University is a large private for-profit school situated in Phoenix, Arizona. It awarded 2 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Grand Canyon University General Engineering Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ottawa University - Surprise. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Arizona list. Ottawa University - Surprise is located in Surprise, Arizona and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s engineering degrees to qualified students.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read more about General Engineering at Ottawa University - Surprise
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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