2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Surveying Technology/Surveying in the Plains States Region (With 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 Surveying Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Surveying Technology/Surveying is the 615th most popular major in the country with 792 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Plains States region, there were 40 surveying technology/surveying graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 13 surveying technology/surveying graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,069 and $19,434 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Surveying Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in surveying technology/surveying. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality surveying technology/surveying programs that also have a lower cost than 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 surveying technology/surveying program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Surveying Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Surveying Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Surveying Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Surveying Technology/Surveying in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#1

Bismarck State College

Bismarck, North Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$9,420 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Surveying Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Bismarck State College landed the #1 spot on the list. Bismarck State College is located in Bismarck, North Dakota and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 associates’s surveying degrees to qualified students.

BSC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Surveying Technology/Surveying Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $9,420 for Plains States Region Associate Degree Surveying students with aid per year to attend Bismarck State College.

Read more about Surveying Technology/Surveying at Bismarck State College

#2

Southeast Technical College

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

#2 in overall quality

$14,633 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southeast Technical College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Surveying Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. Sioux Falls, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s surveying degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

Southeast Tech also made our “Best Surveying Technology/Surveying Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend Southeast Tech is $14,633 for Plains States Region Associate Degree Surveying students with aid.

Full Southeast Technical College Surveying Technology/Surveying Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Surveying Technology/Surveying (With Aid)

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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