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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$8,912 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$36,120 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Engineering Associate Degree School for You

General Engineering is the #80 most popular major in the country with 11,796 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. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Value General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision.

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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value General Engineering Associate Degree Colleges.

Best General Engineering Associate Degree School

Our analysis found Wake Technical Community College to be the best value school for general engineering students who want to pursue a associate degree in the Southeast Region . Wake Technical Community College is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Raleigh.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Wake Technical Community College are $8,912 a year. The average amount in student loans that engineering majors at Wake Technical Community College take out while working on their Associate Degree is $12,999.

Wake Technical Community College excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list.

Read full report on General Engineering at Wake Technical Community College

Best General Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best general engineering schools for a specific state in the Southeast region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 170
Virginia 647
North Carolina 660
Florida 18
Tennessee 134
Kentucky 0
South Carolina 10
Louisiana 168
Arkansas 173
Alabama 225
Mississippi 264
West Virginia 84

General Engineering is one of 40 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Electrical Engineering 28,844
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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 Rémi Kaupp.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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