2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 an Associate in the Plains States Region” 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 the Plains States region, there were 12,638 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,836 and $23,524 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 369 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,069 and $19,434 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the 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 Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree engineering students.
Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Engineering in the Plains States Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region. Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City is a fairly large public school situated in Kansas City, Missouri. It awarded 36 associates’s engineering degrees in 2019-2020.
MCC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $7,066 for Plains States Region Associate Degree Engineering students per year to attend Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City.
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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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