2022 Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

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 “Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 444 science technologies / technicians graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,775 and $21,815 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 43 science technologies / technicians graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great science technologies / technicians programs and cost less that 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 in the Great Lakes Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Science Technologies / Technicians in the Great Lakes Region

#1

University of Wisconsin - Stout

Menomonie, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$15,839 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Science Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Stout landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Wisconsin - Stout is located in Menomonie, Wisconsin and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 29 bachelors’s science tech degrees to qualified students.

UW - Stout also took the #1 spot in our “Best Science Technologies / Technicians Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UW - Stout is $15,839 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Science Tech students.

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%.

Full UW - Stout Science Technologies / Technicians 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

• *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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