2022 Best Value Textile Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast 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 Textile Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 318 people earned their degree in textile engineering, making the major the 290th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, textile engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $42,400 and had an average of $22,500 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 309 textile engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,400 and $22,500 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 213 textile engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality textile 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 textile engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Textile Engineering Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Textile Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Textile Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Textile Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Textile Engineering in the Southeast Region

#1

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$16,458 Average Net Price

$45,383 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Textile Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. NC State is a large public school situated in Raleigh, North Carolina. It awarded 213 bachelors’s textile engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

NC State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Textile Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $16,458 for southeast region bachelor’s degree textile engineering students per year to attend NC State.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 2.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Textile Engineering at North Carolina State University

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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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