2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income Over $110k) in Arkansas

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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.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Vallue Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income Over $110k) in Arkansas

#1

John Brown University

Siloam Springs, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$21,963 Average Net Price

$66,941 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Vallue Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Arkansas For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, John Brown University landed the #1 spot on the list. JBU is a small school located in Siloam Springs, Arkansas that handed out 19 bachelors’s engineering degrees 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. The yearly cost to attend JBU is $21,963 for Arkansas Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students whose families make more than $110k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Engineering at JBU

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (Income Over $110k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering (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 Rémi Kaupp.

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