2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Engineering is the 78th most popular major in the country with 11,925 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $66,152 and had an average of $20,077 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Jersey, there were 238 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $8,317 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,288 and $24,807 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in New Jersey

#1

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Newark, New Jersey

#1 in overall quality

$12,853 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, New Jersey Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Newark, New Jersey is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s engineering degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

NJIT did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” list. The yearly cost to attend New Jersey Institute of Technology is $12,853 for New Jersey Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 4.9% 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 more about General Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology

#2

Rowan University

Glassboro, New Jersey

#2 in overall quality

$18,401 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rowan University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k. Glassboro, New Jersey is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s engineering degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

Rowan also made our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend Rowan University is $18,401 for New Jersey Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

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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 Rémi Kaupp.

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