2022 Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Engineering Technologies is the 19th most popular major in the country with 86,730 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, engineering technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $46,894 and had an average of $21,178 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 6,838 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,288 and $19,942 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,701 and $106,703 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great engineering technologies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the engineering technologies 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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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 Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies (Income $48-$75k) in the Plains States Region

#1

University of Northern Iowa

Cedar Falls, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$22,648 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Northern Iowa landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Northern Iowa is a public institution located in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UNI also made our “Best Engineering Technologies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Northern Iowa are $22,648, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Engineering Technologies at University of Northern Iowa

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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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