2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $48-$75k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 District of Columbia For Those Making $48-$75k” 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 District of Columbia, there were 1 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,446 and $25,767 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general engineering programs and 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 District of Columbia For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in District of Columbia

#1

George Washington University

Washington, District of Columbia

#1 in overall quality

$22,287 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, George Washington University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s engineering students in 2019-2020.

GWU also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” ranking. The yearly cost to attend GWU is $22,287 for district of columbia bachelor’s degree engineering students whose families make $48-$75k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full George Washington University General Engineering Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income $48-$75k)

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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