2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut For Those Making $30-$48k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 9,411 people earned their degree in general engineering, making the major the 83rd most popular in the United States.

Across Connecticut, there were 50 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,552 and $24,636 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general engineering 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 program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut bachelor’s degree engineering students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in Connecticut

#1

Trinity College

Hartford, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$9,123 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Trinity College landed the #1 spot on the list. Hartford, Connecticut is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering degrees to 22 students in 2019-2020.

Trinity Bantams did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” list. The yearly cost to attend Trinity Bantams is $9,123 for Connecticut Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students whose families make $30-$48k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Trinity Bantams General Engineering Report

#2

University of New Haven

West Haven, Connecticut

#2 in overall quality

$29,819 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Haven. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Connecticut For Those Making $30-$48k. University of New Haven is a medium-sized school located in West Haven, Connecticut that handed out 2 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

University of New Haven also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of New Haven is $29,819 for Connecticut Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students whose families make $30-$48k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Engineering at University of New Haven

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $30-$48k)

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 Rémi Kaupp.

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