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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Science Technologies / Technicians (With Aid)

4 Ranked Colleges
618 Degrees Awarded
$16,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Science Technologies / Technicians is the 37th most popular major in the country with 7,387 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, science technologies / technicians graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,463 and had an average of $14,918 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 618 science technologies / technicians graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in science technologies / technicians. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality science technologies / technicians 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 science technologies / technicians 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree science tech students with aid.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Science Technologies / Technicians (With Aid)

#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Skysong landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Scottsdale, Arizona, this large public school awarded 68 degrees to qualified bachelors’s science tech students in 2019-2020.

ASU - Skysong also made our “Best Science Technologies / Technicians Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #3. The estimated yearly cost for Arizona State University - Skysong is $13,971 for bachelor’s degree science tech students with aid.

Full Arizona State University - Skysong Science Technologies / Technicians Report

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Anchorage. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Anchorage, Alaska, this fairly large public school awarded 25 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s science tech students in 2019-2020.

UAA also took the #4 spot in our “Best Science Technologies / Technicians Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UAA is $12,995 for bachelor’s degree science tech students with aid.

Full UAA Science Technologies / Technicians Report

#2

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Arizona is a public institution located in Tucson, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 69 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree science tech students with aid list, University of Arizona has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Science Technologies / Technicians Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Arizona is $15,016 for Bachelor’s Degree Science Tech students with aid.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read full report on Science Technologies / Technicians at University of Arizona

#3

University of Wisconsin - Stout

Menomonie, Wisconsin
#6 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Stout landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Wisconsin - Stout is a medium-sized school located in Menomonie, Wisconsin that handed out 29 bachelors’s science tech degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree science tech students with aid list, UW - Stout has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Science Technologies / Technicians Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $15,839 for Bachelor’s Degree Science Tech students with aid per year to attend University of Wisconsin - Stout.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Science Technologies / Technicians at UW - Stout

#4

Campbell University

Buies Creek, North Carolina
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Campbell University landed the #4 spot on the list. Buies Creek, North Carolina is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s science tech degrees to 50 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Campbell, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Science Technologies / Technicians Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $24,544 for bachelor’s degree science tech students with aid per year to attend Campbell University.

Read full report on Science Technologies / Technicians at Campbell

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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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