2023 Best Value Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Engineering Associate Degree School for You
With 198,468 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, engineering is the #7 most popular major in the United States.
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 Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking.
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 Engineering Associate Degree School
Our 2023 rankings named Utah Valley University the best value school in the Rocky Mountains Region for engineering students working on their associate degree. Located in the city of Orem, UVU is a public school with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UVU are $17,092 a year.
UVU did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list.
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Request InformationBest Engineering Colleges by State
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State | Degrees Awarded |
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Colorado | 4,398 |
Utah | 2,169 |
Montana | 700 |
Idaho | 877 |
Wyoming | 327 |
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Majors Related to Engineering
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Most Popular Majors Related to Engineering
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Computer & Information Sciences | 254,454 |
Biological & Biomedical Sciences | 177,778 |
Engineering Technologies | 85,188 |
Mathematics & Statistics | 52,396 |
Physical Sciences | 50,306 |
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).
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