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2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering (Income $48-$75k)

2 Ranked Colleges
260 Degrees Awarded
$25,400 Avg Salary
Best Value EE Schools for an Associate For Those Making $48-$75k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 EE Schools for an Associate For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 30,670 people earned their degree in electrical engineering, making the major the 31st most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, electrical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $70,098 and had an average of $23,581 in loans still to pay off.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 260 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value EE Schools for an Associate For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in electrical engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great electrical engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

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

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Best Value EE Schools for an Associate For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value EE Schools for an Associate For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering (Income $48-$75k)

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value EE Schools for an Associate For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Chemeketa Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Chemeketa Community College is a medium-sized school located in Salem, Oregon that handed out 7 associates’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

Chemeketa Community College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Electrical Engineering Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $7,097 for associate degree ee students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Chemeketa Community College.

Full Chemeketa Community College Electrical Engineering Report

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value EE Schools for an Associate For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Austin Community College District landed the #2 spot on the list. Austin Community College District is a large public school situated in Austin, Texas. It awarded 2 associates’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Austin Community College District, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Electrical Engineering Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Austin Community College District is $8,877 for associate degree ee students whose families make $48-$75k.

Read more about Electrical Engineering at Austin Community College District

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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