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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Plains States Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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 Plains States region, there were 204 engineering-related technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,729 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 engineering-related technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering-related technologies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their engineering-related technologies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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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 Plains States Region”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, William Penn University landed the #1 spot on the list. Oskaloosa, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering-related tech degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Cloud State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Tech Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, this fairly large public school awarded 6 degrees to qualified bachelors’s engineering-related tech students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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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