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2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

58 Colleges
$7,562 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$46,260 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Engineering Technologies Associate Degree School for You

Engineering Technologies is the #20 most popular major in the country with 85,188 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's 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. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 58 schools in the Southeast Region 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 the Southeast Region

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

Top 10 Best Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Northwest Louisiana Technical Community College the best value school in the Southeast Region for engineering technologies students working on their associate degree. Located in the rural area of Minden, NLTCC is a public school with a small student population.

NLTCC undergraduate students pay an average of $4,109 in tuition and fees each year.

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#2

Columbia Southern University

Orange Beach, AL

The excellent associate degree programs at Columbia Southern University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value engineering technologies schools in the Southeast Region . Located in the fringe town of Orange Beach, Columbia Southern University is a private for-profit college with a large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Columbia Southern University are $5,775 per year.

Columbia Southern University also made our Best Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, coming in at #3.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend SOWELA Technical Community College. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. SOWELA is a small public school located in the small city of Lake Charles.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at SOWELA are $4,265 per year.

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#4

Baton Rouge Community College

Baton Rouge, LA

Out of the 58 schools in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Baton Rouge Community College landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the midsize city of Baton Rouge, BRCC is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

BRCC undergraduate students pay an average of $4,221 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Fletcher Technical Community College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. Located in the rural area of Schriever, Fletcher Technical Community College is a public school with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Fletcher Technical Community College are $3,981 per year.

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South Louisiana Community College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Located in the city of Lafayette, South Louisiana Community College is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

South Louisiana Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $4,205 in tuition and fees each year.

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#7

Pearl River Community College

Poplarville, MS

Pearl River Community College ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. Located in the remote area of Poplarville, Pearl River Community College is a public college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Pearl River Community College are $4,500 a year.

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Georgia Northwestern Technical College ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. Georgia Northwestern Technical College is a medium-sized public school located in the city of Rome.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Georgia Northwestern Technical College are $5,462 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Georgia Northwestern Technical College also did well on our Best Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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#9

Piedmont Technical College

Greenwood, SC

Piedmont Technical College ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. Located in the town of Greenwood, Piedmont Technical College is a public college with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Piedmont Technical College are $6,593 per year.

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Florence-Darlington Technical College landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value associate degree engineering technologies programs. Florence-Darlington Technical College is a small public school located in the suburb of Florence.

Florence-Darlington Technical College undergraduate students pay an average of $6,742 in tuition and fees each year.

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Best Engineering Technologies Colleges by State

Explore the best engineering technologies colleges for a specific state in the Southeast region.

State Degrees Awarded
North Carolina 2,073
West Virginia 451
South Carolina 814
Florida 1,539
Virginia 938
Arkansas 815
Mississippi 799
Louisiana 1,315
Alabama 2,165
Kentucky 843
Georgia 686
Tennessee 951

Engineering Tech Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Industrial Production Technology 11,906
Electromechanical Engineering Technology 10,593
Drafting & Design Engineering Technology 8,964
Environmental Control Technology 8,690
Electronics Engineering Technology 8,592
Engineering-Related Fields 6,736
Mechanical Engineering Technology 6,013
General Engineering Technology 4,676
Construction Engineering Technology 4,330
Quality Control Technology 3,824
Computer Engineering Technology 3,595
Engineering Technology (Other) 1,768
Architectural Engineering Technology 1,290
Energy Systems Technologies 1,256
Civil Engineering Technology 1,187
Engineering-Related Technologies 989
Mining & Petroleum Technology 445
Nuclear Engineering Technology 220
Nanotechnology 114

Majors Similar to Engineering Tech

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer & Information Sciences 254,454
Engineering 198,468
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 177,778
Mathematics & Statistics 52,396
Physical Sciences 50,306

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 25 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.

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