2023 Best Value Colleges for General Engineering in Indiana (With Aid)
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Ranked Colleges
276
Degrees Awarded
$12,500
Avg Net Price*
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 in Indiana For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Engineering is the 79th most popular major in the country with 11,796 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,873 and had an average of $20,557 in loans still to pay off.
Across Indiana, there were 276 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,165 and $26,919 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools in Indiana For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Engineering Schools in Indiana For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Value Engineering Schools in Indiana For Those Getting Aid
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Schools in Indiana For Those Getting Aid.
Top 4 Best Value Colleges for General Engineering in Indiana (With Aid)
Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools in Indiana For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in West Lafayette, Indiana, and it awarded 96 ’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
Purdue also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Engineering Schools in Indiana” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Purdue is $13,377 for Indiana Engineering students with aid.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Engineering at Purdue
Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools in Indiana For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University Fort Wayne landed the #2 spot on the list. Purdue University Fort Wayne is a medium-sized school located in Fort Wayne, Indiana that handed out 25 ’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
PFW not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best General Engineering Schools in Indiana” list. It costs about $11,629 for Indiana Engineering students with aid per year to attend PFW.
Read more about General Engineering at PFW
Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools in Indiana For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University Northwest landed the #3 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Hammond, Indiana, and it awarded 5 ’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Purdue Northwest, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best General Engineering Schools in Indiana” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Purdue Northwest is $11,384 for indiana engineering students with aid.
Full Purdue University Northwest General Engineering Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Engineering Schools in Indiana For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Indiana landed the #4 spot on the list. University of Southern Indiana is a medium-sized school located in Evansville, Indiana that handed out 28 ’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
USI not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best General Engineering Schools in Indiana” list. The yearly cost to attend USI is $13,481 for indiana engineering students with aid.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.9% 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 full report on General Engineering at USI
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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
- *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.
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