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Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Schools in Nebraska

2023 Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Schools in Nebraska

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$3,384 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$38,491 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology School for You

Drafting & Design Engineering Technology is the #97 most popular major in Nebraska with 56 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're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Schools in Nebraska ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Nebraska to see which programs offered the best value experiences for design engineering tech students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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.

Best Nebraska Schools for Affordable Quality in Drafting & Design Engineering

$3,750 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Northeast Community College to be the best value school for drafting and design engineering technology students who want to pursue a degree in Nebraska. Northeast is a medium-sized public school located in the remote town of Norfolk.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Northeast are $3,750 a year.

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$3,192 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Southeast Community College Area helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best drafting and design engineering technology schools in Nebraska. Located in the city of Lincoln, Southeast Community College is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

Southeast Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $3,192 in in-state tuition and fees each year. While working on their degree, design engineering tech majors at Southeast Community College accumulate an average of around $16,500 in student debt.

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#3

Central Community College

Grand Island, NE
$3,210 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Central Community College helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best drafting and design engineering technology schools in Nebraska. Central Community College is a medium-sized public school located in the city of Grand Island.

Central Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $3,210 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 73
Minnesota 191
Kansas 64
Iowa 40
South Dakota 19

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 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 Pixabay.

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