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2023 Best Value General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$2,768 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$36,120 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Engineering Associate Degree School for You

General Engineering is the #40 most popular major in North Carolina with 660 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking.

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.

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 North Carolina. Wake Technical Community College is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Raleigh.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Wake Technical Community College are $2,768 a year. While working on their Associate Degree, engineering majors at Wake Technical Community College accumulate an average of around $12,999 in student debt.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Wake Technical Community College is ranked #5 for overall quality for engineering in North Carolina.

Read full report on General Engineering at Wake Technical Community College

Best Value General Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value General Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 170
Virginia 647
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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