2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering Science in Texas

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Engineering Science Schools for an Associate in Texas” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Texas, there were 171 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 $0 and $0 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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general engineering science program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Engineering Science Schools for an Associate in Texas” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Engineering Science Schools for an Associate in Texas

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

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering Science in Texas

#1

Houston Community College

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$5,272 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Houston Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering Science Schools for an Associate in Texas. This large school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 134 associates’s engineering science degrees in 2019-2020.

Houston Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Engineering Science Associate Degree Schools in Texas” list. It costs about $5,272 for Texas 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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