2022 Best Vallue Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making Over $110k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Vallue Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,668 people earned their degree in engineering science, making the major the 208th most popular in the United States. 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.

Across the Southeast region, there were 168 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,700 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 85 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

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

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the engineering science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Vallue Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree engineering science students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science (Income Over $110k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$19,432 Average Net Price

$63,005 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Vallue Engineering Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Vanderbilt University landed the #1 spot on the list. Vanderbilt is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 55 bachelors’s engineering science degrees in 2019-2020.

Vanderbilt not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Engineering Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Vanderbilt is $19,432 for southeast region bachelor’s degree engineering science students whose families make more than $110k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low student loan default rate of 1.0% 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 full report on Engineering Science at Vanderbilt University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science (Income Over $110k)

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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