2022 Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Engineering Technology is the 155th most popular major in the country with 4,195 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $49,903 and had an average of $20,609 in loans still to pay off.

Across Washington, there were 282 general engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,000 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 62 general engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,202 and $21,977 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general engineering technology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general engineering technology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

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

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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 Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology (Income $0-$30k) in Washington

#1

Bellingham Technical College

Bellingham, Washington

#2 in overall quality

$6,787 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bellingham Technical College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington For Those Making $0-$30k list. Bellingham Technical College is a small public school situated in Bellingham, Washington. It awarded 2 bachelors’s engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Bellingham Vocational Technical Institute not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best General Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Washington” list. It costs about $6,787 for washington bachelor’s degree engineering tech students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Bellingham Vocational Technical Institute.

Full Bellingham Technical College General Engineering Technology Report

#2

Eastern Washington University

Cheney, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$8,473 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Washington University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in Washington For Those Making $0-$30k. Located in Cheney, Washington, this fairly large public school handed out 60 degrees to qualified bachelors’s engineering tech students in 2019-2020.

EWU also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Washington” ranking. The yearly cost to attend EWU is $8,473 for Washington Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Tech students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read full report on General Engineering Technology at Eastern Washington University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology (Income $0-$30k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Technology (Income $0-$30k)

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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