If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in
engineering-related fields, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #134 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Arizona to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of engineering-related fields. Combined, these schools handed out 88 bachelor's degrees in engineering-related fields to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
The engineering-related fields bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality engineering-related fields program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to engineering-related fields students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of engineering-related fields students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Student Debt - How easy is it for engineering-related fields to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized engineering-related fields related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for engineering-related fields students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Engineering-Related Fields Bachelor's Degree Schools in Arizona ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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.
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