2022 Best Value General Mechanical Engineering Schools for an Associate

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value General Mechanical Engineering Schools for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Mechanical Engineering is the 12th most popular major in the country with 47,598 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 318 general mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general mechanical 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 mechanical 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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Best Value General Mechanical Engineering Schools for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree general mechanical engineering students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Mechanical Engineering

#1

Saint Francis University

Loretto, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$28,643 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Francis University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value General Mechanical Engineering Schools for an Associate list. Saint Francis is a small school located in Loretto, Pennsylvania that handed out 4 associates’s general mechanical engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Saint Francis, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Mechanical Engineering Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Saint Francis is $28,643 for Associate Degree General Mechanical Engineering students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full Saint Francis General Mechanical Engineering Report

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 Michel Villeneuve.

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