2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering Technology (Income $30-$48k) in New Hampshire

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 ME Tech Schools for an Associate in New Hampshire For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Mechanical Engineering Technology is the 126th most popular major in the country with 6,707 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, mechanical engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $52,659 and had an average of $22,928 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Hampshire, there were 39 mechanical engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $13,000 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 19 mechanical engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,539 and $15,843 respectively.

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

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the mechanical engineering technology program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 ME Tech Schools for an Associate in New Hampshire For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value ME Tech Schools for an Associate in New Hampshire For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value ME Tech Schools for an Associate in New Hampshire For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering Technology (Income $30-$48k) in New Hampshire

#1

NHTI-Concord's Community College

Concord, New Hampshire

#1 in overall quality

$22,142 Average Net Price

$55,964 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value ME Tech Schools for an Associate in New Hampshire For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, NHTI-Concord’s Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. NHTI-Concord’s Community College is a small public school situated in Concord, New Hampshire. It awarded 19 associates’s ME tech degrees in 2019-2020.

NHTI also made our “Best Mechanical Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in New Hampshire” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $22,142 for new hampshire associate degree me tech students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend NHTI-Concord’s Community College.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Mechanical Engineering Technology at NHTI-Concord’s Community College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering Technology (Income $30-$48k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering Technology (Income $30-$48k)

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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