2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technology in North Carolina (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across North Carolina, there were 120 engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 52 engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,192 and $24,368 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality engineering technology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the engineering technology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technology in North Carolina (With Aid)

#1

Western Carolina University

Cullowhee, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$13,722 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Carolina University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Technology Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid list. WCU is a fairly large school located in Cullowhee, North Carolina that handed out 52 bachelors’s engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

WCU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” ranking. It costs about $13,722 for North Carolina Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Technology students with aid per year to attend WCU.

Full WCU Engineering Technology Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technology in the Southeast 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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