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Best Value General Engineering Schools in Minnesota

2023 Best Value General Engineering Schools in Minnesota

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$11,498 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$60,645 Avg Salary

Finding the Best General Engineering School for You

General Engineering is the #83 most popular major in Minnesota with 183 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value General Engineering Schools in Minnesota to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Minnesota to see which programs offered the best value experiences for engineering 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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Best Minnesota Schools for Affordable Quality in General Engineering

$9,146 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Minnesota State University - Mankato the best value school in Minnesota for general engineering students. Located in the small city of Mankato, Minnesota State Mankato is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Minnesota State Mankato undergraduate students pay an average of $9,146 in in-state tuition and fees each year. While working on their degree, engineering majors at Minnesota State Mankato accumulate an average of around $17,850 in student debt.

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$13,850 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Minnesota - Duluth. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value General Engineering Schools in Minnesota list. Located in the city of Duluth, UMN Duluth is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UMN Duluth are $13,850 per year.

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Best Value General Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 160
Kansas 36
Iowa 31
Nebraska 71
North Dakota 6
South Dakota 17

One of 40 majors within the area of study, general engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

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 averages are for the top 2 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 Rémi Kaupp.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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