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Best Value Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in Massachusetts

2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in Massachusetts

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$16,436 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$46,909 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Engineering Technologies Associate Degree School for You

In 2021-2022, engineering technologies students earned 569 degrees and certificates from a Massachusetts school, making the subject the 4th in the state.

Today's trade school students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Trade College Search has created the Best Value Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in Massachusetts to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Massachusetts to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for engineering tech students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in Massachusetts

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for engineering tech majors pursuing a associate degree.

Best Massachusetts Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Engineering Technologies

Our 2023 rankings named Springfield Technical Community College the best value school in Massachusetts for engineering technologies students working on their associate degree. Located in the midsize city of Springfield, STCC is a public school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at STCC are $5,520 a year.

STCC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Trade Schools in Massachusetts list.

Full Engineering Technologies at Springfield Technical Community College Report

#2

Bristol Community College

Fall River, MA

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bristol Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in Massachusetts list. Bristol is a medium-sized public school located in the suburb of Fall River.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Bristol are $5,280 per year.

Read full report on Engineering Technologies at Bristol Community College

The excellent associate degree programs at University of Massachusetts - Lowell helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value engineering technologies schools in Massachusetts. UMass Lowell is a large public school located in the large suburb of Lowell.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UMass Lowell are $16,182 per year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Wentworth Institute of Technology. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in Massachusetts list. Located in the city of Boston, WIT is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

WIT undergraduate students pay an average of $38,760 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Engineering Technologies at Wentworth Institute of Technology Report

Best Value Engineering Technologies Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Value Engineering Technologies Schools in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New Hampshire 227
Connecticut 676
Maine 273
Rhode Island 181
Vermont 80

Engineering Tech Majors to Study

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
Engineering-Related Fields 6,553
Mechanical Engineering Technology 6,205
Construction Engineering Technology 4,299
General Engineering Technology 3,841
Quality Control Technology 3,720
Computer Engineering Technology 3,509
Engineering Technology (Other) 1,907
Energy Systems Technologies 1,277
Architectural Engineering Technology 1,239
Civil Engineering Technology 1,155
Engineering-Related Technologies 969
Mining & Petroleum Technology 410
Nuclear Engineering Technology 235
Nanotechnology 104

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools 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 KUKA Systems GmbH.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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