2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering in North Carolina (With Aid)

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 an Associate in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid” 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 North Carolina, there were 639 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,600 and $21,586 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 357 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,912 and $18,026 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.

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 Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for north carolina associate degree engineering students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering in North Carolina (With Aid)

#1

Wake Technical Community College

Raleigh, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$6,876 Average Net Price

$37,748 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Wake Technical Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Wake Technical Community College is a large public school situated in Raleigh, North Carolina. It awarded 124 associates’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Wake Technical Community College also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina” ranking. It costs about $6,876 for North Carolina Associate Degree Engineering students with aid per year to attend Wake Technical Community College.

Read more about General Engineering at Wake Technical Community College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Southeast Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Engineering (With Aid)

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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