2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in New Jersey

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 3,604 people earned their degree in systems engineering, making the major the 164th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, systems engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $90,261 and had an average of $27,803 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Jersey, there were 261 systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $88,900 and $19,500 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,288 and $24,807 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great systems 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 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in New Jersey

#1

Stevens Institute of Technology

Hoboken, New Jersey

#1 in overall quality

$29,774 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Systems Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Stevens Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Hoboken, New Jersey, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s systems engineering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Stevens, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Systems Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking. It costs about $29,774 for New Jersey Bachelor’s Degree Systems Engineering students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Stevens.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering (Income $48-$75k)

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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