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2023 Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Associate Degree School for You
Drafting & Design Engineering Technology is the #20 most popular major in the country with 8,822 degrees and certificates awarded in 2021-2022.
With all the trade school programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent.
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 the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
The following school tops our list of the Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Associate Degree Colleges.
Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Associate Degree School
Our 2023 rankings named Southern Maine Community College the best value school in the New England Region for drafting & design engineering technology students working on their associate degree. SMCC is a medium-sized public school located in the city of South Portland.
SMCC undergraduate students pay an average of $6,677 in tuition and fees each year. The average amount in student loans that design engineering tech majors at SMCC take out while working on their Associate Degree is $12,469.
Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Colleges by State
Explore the best drafting & design engineering technology schools for a specific state in the New England region.
State | Degrees Awarded |
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Massachusetts | 40 |
Maine | 33 |
Connecticut | 71 |
Rhode Island | 7 |
New Hampshire | 11 |
Vermont | 0 |
Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Related Majors for Design Engineering Tech
Drafting & Design Engineering Technology is one of 18 different types of trade school programs to choose from.
Design Engineering Tech Concentrations
Most Popular Related Majors
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Industrial Production Technology | 11,288 |
Electromechanical Engineering Technology | 10,780 |
Environmental Control Technology | 9,376 |
Electronics Engineering Technology | 8,347 |
Engineering-Related Fields | 6,553 |
Notes and References
*These values are for the top school 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.
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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