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2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

1 Ranked Colleges
26 Degrees Awarded
$3,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value EE Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value EE Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Electrical Engineering is the 26th most popular major in the country with 29,892 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 3,707 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 26 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent electrical engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the electrical engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value EE Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value EE Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree ee students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Austin Community College District. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value EE Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Austin, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s EE degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

Austin Community College District also took the #1 spot in our “Best Electrical Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $3,134 for southwest region associate degree ee students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Austin Community College District.

Full Austin Community College District Electrical Engineering Report

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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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