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2022 Best Vallue Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina For Those Making Over $110k

2 Ranked Colleges
92 Degrees Awarded
$22,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Vallue Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor's in South Carolina For Those Making Over $110k

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 Vallue Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 South Carolina, there were 1,292 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $68,400 and $15,911 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 92 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Vallue Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina For Those Making Over $110k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in engineering technologies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent engineering technologies programs, but they also cost less that 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 engineering technologies program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Vallue Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies (Income Over $110k) in South Carolina

#1

Clemson University

Clemson, South Carolina
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Clemson University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Vallue Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina For Those Making Over $110k. Clemson is a large public school situated in Clemson, South Carolina. It awarded 66 bachelors’s engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

Clemson not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” list. It costs about $20,008 for South Carolina Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Tech students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend Clemson University.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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#2

University of South Carolina - Upstate

Spartanburg, South Carolina
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Vallue Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Carolina - Upstate landed the #2 spot on the list. Spartanburg, South Carolina is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s engineering tech degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

USC Upstate also made our “Best Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $15,832 for South Carolina Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Tech students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend University of South Carolina - Upstate.

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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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