2022 Best Value Welding Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k

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 Welding Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Welding Engineering Technology is the 865th most popular major in the country with 274 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Plains States region, there were 21 welding engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 17 welding engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,069 and $19,434 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great welding engineering technology/technician 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 welding 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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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 Welding Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Welding Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree welding engineering tech students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Welding Engineering Technology (Income $0-$30k) in the Plains States Region

#1

Mitchell Technical College

Mitchell, South Dakota

#1 in overall quality

$9,349 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Welding Engineering Tech Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Mitchell Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. Mitchell Tech is a small school located in Mitchell, South Dakota that handed out 17 associates’s welding engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Mitchell Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Welding Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. It costs about $9,349 for Plains States Region Associate Degree Welding Engineering Tech students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Mitchell Technical College.

Read full report on Welding Engineering Technology at Mitchell Tech

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Welding 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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