2022 Best Value Colleges for Other Chemical Engineering (With Aid)

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 Other Chemical Engineering Schools For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Other Chemical Engineering is the 1286th most popular major in the country with 3 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent other chemical engineering 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 other chemical engineering program at the school. 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 Other Chemical Engineering Schools For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Other Chemical Engineering Schools For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for other chemical engineering students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Other Chemical Engineering (With Aid)

#1

University of Rochester

Rochester, New York

#1 in overall quality

$29,522 Average Net Price

$52,121 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Other Chemical Engineering Schools For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rochester landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Rochester is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Rochester, New York. It awarded 3 ’s other chemical engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Rochester also took the #1 spot in our “Best Other Chemical Engineering Schools” ranking. It costs about $29,522 for Other Chemical Engineering students with aid per year to attend University of Rochester.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low student loan default rate of 1.6% 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%.

Read full report on Other Chemical Engineering at University of Rochester

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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