2022 Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region

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” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 86,730 people earned their degree in engineering technologies, making the major the 19th most popular in the United States. 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.

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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

More Ways to Rank Engineering Technologies Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Tech Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies 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 that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Northern Iowa landed the #1 spot on the list. UNI is a medium-sized school located in Cedar Falls, Iowa that handed out 2 doctorate’s engineering tech degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNI, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering Technologies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Northern Iowa are $22,648.

Read more about Engineering Technologies at UNI

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies

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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