2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $75-$110k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Engineering is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 6th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 200,458 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $64,888 and had an average of $23,564 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 774 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,650 and $25,787 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 379 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,446 and $25,767 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. 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 $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering (Income $75-$110k) in District of Columbia

#1

George Washington University

Washington, District of Columbia

#1 in overall quality

$29,282 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Washington University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $75-$110k list. GWU is a large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 170 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

GWU also made our “Best Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $29,282 for District of Columbia Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend George Washington University.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.

Full GWU Engineering Report

#2

Catholic University of America

Washington, District of Columbia

#2 in overall quality

$33,746 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Catholic University of America. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $75-$110k. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering degrees to 106 students in 2019-2020.

CUA not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” list. It costs about $33,746 for district of columbia bachelor’s degree engineering students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend CUA.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read more about Engineering at CUA

#3

Howard University

Washington, District of Columbia

#3 in overall quality

$44,482 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Howard University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $75-$110k list. Howard is a fairly large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 64 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our district of columbia bachelor’s degree engineering students whose families make $75-$110k list, Howard has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Howard is $44,482 for District of Columbia Bachelor’s Degree Engineering students whose families make $75-$110k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Engineering at Howard University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering (Income $75-$110k) in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering (Income $75-$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.

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