2022 Best Value Engineering-Related Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Engineering-Related Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 884 people earned their degree in engineering-related technologies, making the major the 273rd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, engineering-related technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $55,300 and had an average of $12,619 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 104 engineering-related technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 engineering-related technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great engineering-related technologies 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 engineering-related technologies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Engineering-Related Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering-Related Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering-Related Technologies (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1

New Mexico State University - Main Campus

Las Cruces, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$6,896 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering-Related Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. NMSU Main Campus is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s engineering-related tech degrees to qualified students.

NMSU Main Campus also took the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering-Related Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for New Mexico State University - Main Campus is $6,896 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Engineering-Related Tech students whose families make $0-$30k.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering-Related Technologies (Income $0-$30k)

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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