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

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 Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 3,604 people earned their degree in general systems engineering, making the major the 212th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 182 general systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 71 general systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general systems engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general systems engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank General Systems Engineering Schools

The general systems engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value General Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region”.

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Best Value General Systems 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 general systems engineering students.

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

#1

Washington University in St Louis

Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$26,869 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value General Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington University in St Louis landed the #1 spot on the list. Washington University in St Louis is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Louis, Missouri. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 70 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

WUSTL also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Systems Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend WUSTL is $26,869 for plains states region bachelor’s degree general systems engineering students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Systems 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.

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