2023 Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

Finding the Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Bachelor's 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.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which trade school program is right for you. 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.

The Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision.

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. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Bachelor's Degree School

#1

Academy of Art University

San Francisco, CA

71 Bachelor's Degrees

$26,728 Average Tuition & Fees

$44,238 Average Earnings

Our 2023 rankings named Academy of Art University the best value school in the Far Western US Region for drafting & design engineering technology students working on their bachelor’s degree. Academy of Art University is a medium-sized private for-profit school located in the city of San Francisco.

Academy of Art University undergraduate students pay an average of $26,728 in tuition and fees each year. The average amount in student loans that design engineering tech majors at Academy of Art University take out while working on their Bachelor's Degree is $36,447. Assuming that a graduate chooses a 10-year repayment plan, the average monthly loan payment is $615.

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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).
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