2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in Arkansas

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 Arkansas For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Arkansas, there were 177 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,700 and $24,250 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 40 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,332 and $22,750 respectively.

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

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

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

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in Arkansas

#1

John Brown University

Siloam Springs, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$16,791 Average Net Price

$66,941 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend John Brown University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Making $30-$48k list. Located in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 19 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s engineering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at JBU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking. It costs about $16,791 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend JBU.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 3.7% 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%.

Full John Brown University General Engineering Report

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