2022 Best Value Engineering Science Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

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In 2019-2020, 1,668 people earned their degree in general engineering science, making the major the 337th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 223 general engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 134 general engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

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

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general engineering science 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 Engineering Science Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Science Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering Science in the Southwest Region

#1

Houston Community College

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$5,272 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering Science Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Houston Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Houston Community College is a large school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 134 associates’s engineering science degrees in 2019-2020.

Houston Community College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Engineering Science Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $5,272 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Engineering Science students per year to attend Houston Community College.

Read more about General Engineering Science at Houston Community College

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nicolás Pérez.

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