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Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region

2023 Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$8,280 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Engineering-Related Fields is the #36 most popular major in the country with 6,553 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.

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 in the Plains States Region ranking.

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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Associate Degree Colleges.

#1

Grantham University

LIttle Rock, AR

Our 2023 rankings named Grantham University the best value school in the Plains States Region for engineering-related fields students working on their associate degree. Grantham University is a medium-sized public school located in the midsize city of LIttle Rock.

Grantham University undergraduate students pay an average of $8,280 in tuition and fees each year. While working on their Associate Degree, engineering-related fields majors at Grantham University accumulate an average of around $20,769 in student debt.

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Explore the best engineering-related fields schools for a specific state in the Plains States region.

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 66
Missouri 105
Minnesota 1
South Dakota 10
Iowa 101
North Dakota 1

One of 18 majors within the trade school area of study, engineering-related fields has other similar majors worth exploring.

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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