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2023 Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

7 Colleges
$22,201 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$39,649 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology School for You

Drafting & Design Engineering Technology is the #141 most popular major in Pennsylvania with 183 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. This report analyzed 7 schools in Pennsylvania to see which ones offered the best value programs for design engineering tech students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Schools in Pennsylvania

Check out the design engineering tech programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Pennsylvania Schools for Affordable Quality in Drafting & Design Engineering

$8,450 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology the best value school in Pennsylvania for drafting and design engineering technology students. Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology is a small public school located in the small city of Lancaster.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology are $8,450 per year.

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$11,108 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California University of Pennsylvania. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania list. Cal U is a medium-sized public school located in the suburb of California.

Cal U undergraduate students pay an average of $11,108 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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$17,610 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 7 schools in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Pennsylvania College of Technology landed the # 3 spot on the list. Penn College is a small public school located in the small city of Williamsport.

Penn College undergraduate students pay an average of $17,610 in in-state tuition and fees each year. The average amount in student loans that design engineering tech majors at Penn College take out is $22,750.

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$16,699 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Pittsburgh Technical College is a great value for drafting and design engineering technology students. Pittsburgh Technical College is a small private not-for-profit school located in the rural area of Oakdale.

Pittsburgh Technical College undergraduate students pay an average of $16,699 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Design Engineering Tech majors at Pittsburgh Technical College take out an average of $16,166 in student loans while working on their egree. Assuming that a graduate chooses a 10-year repayment plan, the average monthly loan payment is $232.

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#5

Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA
$57,136 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Drexel University is a great value for drafting and design engineering technology students. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, Drexel is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Drexel are $57,136 a year.

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YTI Career Institute-York landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value drafting and design engineering technology programs. YTI is a small private for-profit school located in the medium-sized suburb of York.

On average, design engineering tech graduates from YTI take out $20,000 in student loans while working on their degree.

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#6

Berks Technical Institute

Wyomissing, PA

Berks Technical Institute ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania list. Berks Technical Institute is a small private for-profit school located in the suburb of Wyomissing.

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Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 156
Maryland 105
New Jersey 8
Delaware 9

Drafting & Design Engineering Technology is one of 18 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Industrial Production Technology 11,906
Electromechanical Engineering Technology 10,593
Environmental Control Technology 8,690
Electronics Engineering Technology 8,592
Engineering-Related Fields 6,736

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 7 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 Pixabay.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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