2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Systems Engineering in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value General Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

General Systems Engineering is the 212th most popular major in the country with 3,604 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 344 general systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 86 general systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value General Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in general systems engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general systems engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general systems 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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The general systems engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value General Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid”.

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Best Value General Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Systems Engineering in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$15,880 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value General Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Champaign, Illinois, this large public school handed out 61 degrees to qualified bachelors’s general systems engineering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UIUC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Systems Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UIUC is $15,880 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree General Systems Engineering students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Systems Engineering at UIUC

#2

Ferris State University

Big Rapids, Michigan

#3 in overall quality

$12,889 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ferris State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value General Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. Big Rapids, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general systems engineering degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Ferris also made our “Best General Systems Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #3. The yearly cost to attend Ferris State University is $12,889 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree general systems engineering students with aid.

Full Ferris State University General Systems Engineering Report

#3

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio

#2 in overall quality

$35,428 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Case Western Reserve University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value General Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. Case Western Reserve University is a fairly large school located in Cleveland, Ohio that handed out 6 bachelors’s general systems engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Case Western also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Systems Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Case Western is $35,428 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree General Systems Engineering students with aid.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low student loan default rate of 1.4% 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 Systems Engineering at Case Western Reserve University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Systems 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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