2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Engineering in Nebraska

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 198,468 engineering students received their degree, making the major the 7th most popular in the country. In 2019-2020, engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,653 and had an average of $23,855 in loans still to pay off.

Across Nebraska, there were 699 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $67,172 and $22,349 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 18 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,713 and $18,510 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in engineering.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska

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

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Engineering in Nebraska

1

Northeast Community College
Norfolk, Nebraska

#14 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northeast Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska. Norfolk, Nebraska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s engineering degrees to 11 students 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%.

Read full report on Engineering at Northeast

2

Western Nebraska Community College
Scottsbluff, Nebraska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Nebraska Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska. Western Nebraska Community College is located in Scottsbluff, Nebraska and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 associates’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Engineering at Western Nebraska Community College

3

Metropolitan Community College
Omaha, Nebraska

#8 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Metropolitan Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska. Metropolitan Community College is a fairly large public school situated in Omaha, Nebraska. It awarded 5 associates’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 MCC Engineering Report

4

Union College Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska that were part of this year’s ranking, Union College Nebraska landed the #4 spot on the list. Union College is a small school located in Lincoln, Nebraska that handed out 0 associates’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Union College Engineering Report

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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

• *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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