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2022 Best Value Engineering Science Schools for an Associate For Those Making $48-$75k

1 Ranked Colleges
497 Degrees Awarded
$10,500 Avg Student Debt
Best Value Engineering Science Schools for an Associate For Those Making $48-$75k

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 Engineering Science Schools for an Associate For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Engineering Science is the 208th most popular major in the country with 1,668 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, engineering science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $60,800 and had an average of $20,111 in loans still to pay off.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 497 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great engineering science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

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

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

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

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Engineering Science (Income $48-$75k)

#1

Houston Community College

Houston, Texas

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering Science Schools for an Associate For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Houston Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Houston Community College is located in Houston, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 134 associates’s engineering science degrees to qualified students.

Houston Community College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Engineering Science Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $7,595 for associate degree engineering science students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Houston Community College.

Full Houston Community College Engineering Science Report

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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