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Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois

2023 Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$50,279 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$60,554 Avg Salary

Engineering-Related Fields is the #35 most popular major in Illinois with 18 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 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 Engineering-Related Fields Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois 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.

Our analysis found Illinois Institute of Technology to be the best value school for engineering-related fields students who want to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Illinois. Located in the large city of Chicago, Illinois Tech is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Illinois Tech are $50,279 a year. The average amount in student loans that engineering-related fields majors at Illinois Tech take out while working on their Bachelor's Degree is $25,078.

Illinois Tech also took the #2 spot in our Best Engineering-Related Fields Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools in Illinois rankings.

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Explore all the Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 197
Indiana 92
Wisconsin 62
Ohio 124

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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