2022 Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid

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In 2019-2020, 4,056 people earned their degree in engineering technology, making the major the 196th most popular in the United States.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 102 engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 48 engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering technology. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent engineering technology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the engineering technology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree engineering technology students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technology in Pennsylvania (With Aid)

#1

Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$23,521 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Temple University landed the #1 spot on the list. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s engineering tech degrees to 26 students in 2019-2020.

Temple also took the #2 spot in our “Best Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. It costs about $23,521 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree engineering technology students with aid per year to attend Temple University.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Engineering Technology at Temple

#2

Drexel University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$34,914 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Drexel University landed the #2 spot on the list. Drexel is a large school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that handed out 22 bachelors’s engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Drexel also took the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. It costs about $34,914 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree engineering technology students with aid per year to attend Drexel.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Engineering Technology at Drexel

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technology in the Middle Atlantic Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technology (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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