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Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Associate Degree Schools

2023 Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Associate Degree Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$8,280 Avg Tuition & Fees*

In 2021-2022, 6,553 people earned a degree or certificate in engineering-related fields, making the major the #36 most popular in the United States.

It's not easy to decide which trade school program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Trade College Search has created its Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Associate Degree Schools ranking.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

#1

Grantham University

LIttle Rock, AR

Our analysis found Grantham University to be the best value school for engineering-related fields students who want to pursue a associate degree in the United States. Located in the city of LIttle Rock, Grantham University is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Grantham University are $8,280 a year. Engineering-Related Fields majors at Grantham University take out an average of $20,769 in student loans while working on their Associate Degree.

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Engineering-Related Fields is one of 18 different types of trade school programs to choose from.

Major Annual Graduates
Industrial & Management Engineering 5,903
Packaging Science 378
Other Engineering-Related Fields 152
Engineering Design 120

Related Major Annual Graduates
Industrial Production Technology 11,288
Electromechanical Engineering Technology 10,780
Environmental Control Technology 9,376
Drafting & Design Engineering Technology 8,822
Electronics Engineering Technology 8,347

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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