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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Engineering-Related Technologies is the 270th most popular major in the country with 969 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , engineering-related technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $57,339 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 134 engineering-related technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 engineering-related technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering-related technologies. That schools that top this list have a program in engineering-related technologies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Southwest Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Southwest Region. Texas A&M Corpus Christi is a public institution located in Corpus Christi, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Engineering-Related Technologies at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Mexico State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Southwest Region list. NMSU Main Campus is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s engineering-related tech degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Engineering-Related Technologies at NMSU Main Campus
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s engineering-related tech degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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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%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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