2022 Best Value Plastics and Polymer Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Plastics and Polymer Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 396 people earned their degree in plastics and polymer engineering technology/technician, making the major the 842nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 148 plastics and polymer engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 67 plastics and polymer engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Plastics and Polymer Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in plastics and polymer engineering technology/technician. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent plastics and polymer engineering technology/technician 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 plastics and polymer engineering technology/technician program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Plastics and Polymer Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree plastics and polymer engineering tech students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Plastics & Polymer Engineering Technology (Income $48-$75k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Ferris State University

Big Rapids, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$14,101 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ferris State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Plastics and Polymer Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in Big Rapids, Michigan, this fairly large public school awarded 45 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s plastics and polymer engineering tech students in 2019-2020.

Ferris did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Plastics & Polymer Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Ferris is $14,101 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree plastics and polymer engineering tech students whose families make $48-$75k.

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#2

Shawnee State University

Portsmouth, Ohio

#2 in overall quality

$17,597 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Shawnee State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Plastics and Polymer Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Shawnee State University is a small school located in Portsmouth, Ohio that handed out 22 bachelors’s plastics and polymer engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Shawnee State University also made our “Best Plastics & Polymer Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend Shawnee State University is $17,597 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree plastics and polymer engineering tech students whose families make $48-$75k.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Plastics & Polymer Engineering Technology (Income $48-$75k)

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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