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Best Value Engineering Technologies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region

2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

20 Colleges
$24,187 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$57,857 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Engineering Technologies Bachelor's Degree School for You

In 2021-2022, 84,036 engineering technologies students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #4 most popular in the country.

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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Trade College Search has created its Best Value Engineering Technologies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. This report analyzed 20 schools in the Far Western US Region to see which ones offered the best value bachelor's degree programs for engineering tech students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Engineering Technologies Bachelor's Degree Colleges.

Top 10 Best Engineering Technologies Bachelor's Degree Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Bellingham Technical College the best value school in the Far Western US Region for engineering technologies students working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in the city of Bellingham, Bellingham Vocational Technical Institute is a public college with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Bellingham Vocational Technical Institute are $5,357 per year.

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The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at California State University Maritime Academy helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value engineering technologies schools in the Far Western US Region . Located in the midsize city of Vallejo, Cal Maritime is a public college with a fairly small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Cal Maritime are $18,996 a year.

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Out of the 20 schools in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, California State University - Long Beach landed the # 3 spot on the list. CSULB is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Long Beach.

CSULB undergraduate students pay an average of $18,764 in tuition and fees each year.

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#4

San Diego State University

San Diego, CA

Out of the 20 schools in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, San Diego State University landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the city of San Diego, SDSU is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at SDSU are $20,054 a year.

In addition to its great value ranking, SDSU is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools in the Far Western US Region list.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California State University - Northridge. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list. Located in the city of Northridge, CSUN is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at CSUN are $18,949 a year.

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DeVry University - California ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list. Located in the midsize city of Ontario, DeVry University - California is a private for-profit college with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at DeVry University - California are $15,032 per year.

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University of Alaska Anchorage ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list. Located in the city of Anchorage, UAA is a public college with a large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UAA are $21,635 per year.

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California State Polytechnic University - Pomona did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for engineering technologies students to get a bachelor’s degree. It came in at #8 on the list. Located in the suburb of Pomona, Cal Poly Pomona is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Cal Poly Pomona are $19,319 per year.

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With a ranking of #9, California State University - Chico did quite well on this year’s best value schools for engineering technologies students working on their bachelor’s degree. Chico State is a large public school located in the midsize city of Chico.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Chico State are $19,852 a year.

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With a ranking of #10, Washington State University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for engineering technologies students working on their bachelor’s degree. Wazzu is a fairly large public school located in the town of Pullman.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Wazzu are $28,385 a year.

Wazzu not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools in the Far Western US Region list.

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Best Engineering Technologies Colleges by State

Explore the best engineering technologies colleges for a specific state in the Far Western US region.

State Degrees Awarded
Alaska 112
Hawaii 91
Washington 2,537
Oregon 592
California 4,871
Nevada 286

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 20 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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