2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Ohio

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Ohio” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Ohio, there were 8,678 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,408 and $25,177 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 124 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,171 and $20,046 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Ohio” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Ohio

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Ohio.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Engineering in Ohio

#1

Sinclair Community College

Dayton, Ohio

#1 in overall quality

$4,208 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sinclair Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Ohio. Dayton, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s engineering degrees to 54 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Sinclair Community College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering Associate Degree Schools in Ohio” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Sinclair Community College is $4,208 for Ohio Associate Degree Engineering students.

Full Sinclair Community College Engineering Report

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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

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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Petty Officer 3rd Class Declan Barnes.

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