2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Missouri

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Missouri” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Missouri, there were 3,514 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,641 and $23,146 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 124 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,631 and $21,057 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great engineering programs and cost less that 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 an Associate in Missouri

The colleges and universities below are the best for missouri associate degree engineering students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Engineering in Missouri

#1

Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City

Kansas City, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$7,066 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Engineering Schools for an Associate in Missouri list. Kansas City, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s engineering degrees to 36 students in 2019-2020.

MCC also made our “Best Engineering Associate Degree Schools in Missouri” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City is $7,066 for Missouri Associate Degree Engineering students.

Read more about Engineering at 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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