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2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Basic Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$17,340 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Engineering Technologies Basic Certificate School for You

In 2021-2022, engineering technologies students earned 1,913 degrees and certificates from a Pennsylvania school, making the subject the 4th in the state.

There are so many trade school programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent.

The Best Value Engineering Technologies Basic Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in Pennsylvania to see which ones offered the best value basic certificate programs for engineering tech students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Basic Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania

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

Best Pennsylvania Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Engineering Technologies

#2

Lackawanna College

Scranton, PA

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lackawanna College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Basic Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania list. Lackawanna College is a small private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Scranton.

Lackawanna College undergraduate students pay an average of $17,340 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Engineering Technologies at Lackawanna College Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Basic Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania list. Located in the rural area of Pleasant Gap, CPI is a public school with a small student population.

Read full report on Engineering Technologies at Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology

Best Value Engineering Technologies Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
New Jersey 1,136
Maryland 458
Delaware 106
New York 3,694
District of Columbia 38

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 3 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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