2022 Best Value Construction Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Construction Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 4,225 people earned their degree in construction engineering technology, making the major the 156th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, construction engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $61,333 and had an average of $22,033 in loans still to pay off.

Across Nebraska, there were 54 construction engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,800 and $24,750 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 54 construction engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,068 and $24,613 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great construction engineering technology programs and cost less that 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 construction engineering technology program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Construction Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Construction Engineering Technology in Nebraska (With Aid)

#1

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Lincoln, Nebraska

#1 in overall quality

$17,208 Average Net Price

$63,253 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Construction Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska - Lincoln landed the #1 spot on the list. Lincoln, Nebraska is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s construction engineering tech degrees to 54 students in 2019-2020.

UNL also made our “Best Construction Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $17,208 for Nebraska Bachelor’s Degree Construction Engineering Tech students with aid per year to attend UNL.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Construction Engineering Technology at University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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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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