2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering (With Aid)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Bioengineering Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering is the 63rd most popular major in the country with 12,258 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 31 bioengineering and biomedical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Bioengineering Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in bioengineering and biomedical engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality bioengineering and biomedical engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the bioengineering and biomedical engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. 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 Bioengineering Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Bioengineering Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Bioengineering Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering (With Aid)

#1

Great Bay Community College

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

#1 in overall quality

$16,847 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Great Bay Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Bioengineering Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid list. Great Bay Community College is a small school located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire that handed out 3 associates’s bioengineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our associate degree bioengineering students with aid list, Great Bay Community College has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $16,847 for associate degree bioengineering students with aid per year to attend Great Bay Community College.

Read more about Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering at Great Bay Community College

#2

Portland Community College

Portland, Oregon

#2 in overall quality

$8,914 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Portland Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Bioengineering Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid list. Portland Community College is a large school located in Portland, Oregon that handed out 19 associates’s bioengineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Portland Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering Associate Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Portland Community College is $8,914 for associate degree bioengineering students with aid.

Full Portland Community College Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering Report

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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