2022 Best Value Geoenvironmental Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Geoenvironmental Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 17 people earned their degree in geoenvironmental engineering, making the major the 1320th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 2 geoenvironmental engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality geoenvironmental engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the geoenvironmental engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Geoenvironmental Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region geoenvironmental engineering students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Geoenvironmental Engineering in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

Illinois Institute of Technology

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$22,831 Average Net Price

$62,621 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Geoenvironmental Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Illinois Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s geoenvironmental engineering degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

Illinois Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Geoenvironmental Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Illinois Tech is $22,831 for great lakes region geoenvironmental engineering students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 2.9% 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%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Illinois Institute of Technology Geoenvironmental Engineering Report

• Best Value Colleges for Geoenvironmental Engineering (With Aid)

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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