2022 Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Polymer & Plastics Engineering is the 647th most popular major in the country with 330 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 43 general polymer amd plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 general polymer amd plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general polymer amd plastics 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 polymer amd plastics 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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Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree polymer engineering students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$24,104 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Auburn University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Auburn, Alabama, this large public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s polymer engineering students in 2019-2020.

Auburn also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Auburn is $24,104 for southeast region bachelor’s degree polymer engineering students with aid.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 2.9% 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 more about General Polymer & Plastics Engineering at Auburn University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Polymer & Plastics 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.

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