2023 Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Associate Degree Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Associate Degree School for You

In 2021-2022, 339 degrees and certificates were awarded to drafting & design engineering technology students who went to a Illinois college or university. This makes it the #18 most popular major in the state.

Today's trade school students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Trade College Search has created the Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Associate Degree Schools in Illinois to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Illinois to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for design engineering tech students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Drafting & Design Engineering

#1

Lewis and Clark Community College

Godfrey, IL

5 Associate Degrees

$9,552 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Lewis and Clark Community College to be the best value school for drafting & design engineering technology students who want to pursue a associate degree in Illinois. Lewis and Clark Community College is a small public school located in the small suburb of Godfrey.

Lewis and Clark Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $9,552 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#2

Lake Land College

Mattoon, IL

13 Associate Degrees

#20 in Quality in Illinois

$8,104 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Lake Land College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Associate Degree Schools in Illinois list. Lake Land College is a small public school located in the town of Mattoon.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Lake Land College are $8,104 per year.

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Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

Majors Related to Design Engineering Tech

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Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Pixabay.

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