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

3 Ranked Colleges
62 Degrees Awarded
$17,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor's in Michigan 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 Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Michigan For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 9,770 people earned their degree in drafting and design engineering technology, making the major the 142nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, drafting and design engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $37,947 and had an average of $20,124 in loans still to pay off.

Across Michigan, there were 344 drafting and design engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,650 and $18,549 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 62 drafting and design engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,161 and $25,915 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Michigan For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in drafting and design engineering technology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great drafting and design engineering technology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the drafting and design engineering technology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Michigan For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Michigan For Those Getting Aid.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Drafting & Design Engineering Technology in Michigan (With Aid)

#1

Eastern Michigan University

Ypsilanti, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Michigan University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Michigan For Those Getting Aid list. Eastern Michigan is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s design engineering tech degrees to qualified students.

Eastern Michigan did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Michigan” list. The estimated yearly cost for Eastern Michigan University is $15,924 for michigan bachelor’s degree design engineering tech students with aid.

Read more about Drafting & Design Engineering Technology at Eastern Michigan University

#2

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Michigan University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Michigan For Those Getting Aid list. WMU is a fairly large school located in Kalamazoo, Michigan that handed out 31 bachelors’s design engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

WMU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Michigan” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for WMU is $19,433 for Michigan Bachelor’s Degree Design Engineering Tech students with aid.

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#3

Central Michigan University

Mount Pleasant, Michigan
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Michigan University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Design Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Michigan For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, this fairly large public school handed out 27 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s design engineering tech students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Central Michigan, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Michigan” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Central Michigan is $15,981 for Michigan Bachelor’s Degree Design Engineering Tech students with aid.

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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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