2022 Best Value General Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

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 General Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Plains States region, there were 182 general systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 71 general systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value General Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States 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 Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Systems Engineering in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#1

Washington University in St Louis

Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$26,869 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington University in St Louis. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value General Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 70 degrees to qualified bachelors’s general systems engineering students in 2019-2020.

WUSTL also made our “Best General Systems Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend WUSTL is $26,869 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree General Systems Engineering students with aid.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. 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%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Washington University in St Louis General Systems Engineering Report

• 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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