2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Mechanics in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 General Engineering Mechanics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Engineering Mechanics is the 707th most popular major in the country with 257 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 46 general engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 26 general engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general engineering mechanics 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 general engineering mechanics 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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Best Value General Engineering Mechanics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Engineering Mechanics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Mechanics in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$21,198 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value General Engineering Mechanics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Blacksburg, Virginia, this large public school handed out 26 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s general engineering mechanics students in 2019-2020.

Virginia Tech also made our “Best General Engineering Mechanics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $21,198 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree General Engineering Mechanics students with aid per year to attend Virginia Tech.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. 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 more about General Engineering Mechanics at Virginia Tech

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Mechanics (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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