2023 Best Value Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Engineering Bachelor's Degree School for You
In 2020-2021, engineering students earned 10,045 degrees and certificates from a Pennsylvania school, making the subject the 4th in the state.
Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. Our analysis looked at 15 schools in Pennsylvania to see which bachelor's degree 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.
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.
Top 10 Best Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools
Our analysis found University of Pittsburgh - Johnstown to be the best value school for engineering students who want to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Pennsylvania. Pitt Johnstown is a small public school located in the small suburb of Johnstown.
In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Pitt Johnstown are $14,352 per year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list. Located in the town of Shippensburg, Ship is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Ship are $13,394 a year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list. Pitt is a fairly large public school located in the city of Pittsburgh.
In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Pitt are $20,362 per year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend York College of Pennsylvania. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list. YCP is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of York.
YCP undergraduate students pay an average of $22,350 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Temple University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list. Located in the city of Philadelphia, Temple is a public school with a very large student population.
In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Temple are $17,378 per year.
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University of Pennsylvania landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value bachelor’s degree engineering programs. UPenn is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Philadelphia.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UPenn are $61,710 a year.
UPenn also made our Best Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list, coming in at #2.
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Carnegie Mellon University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. Located in the large city of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon are $58,524 a year.
Carnegie Mellon also took the #1 spot in our Best Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania rankings.
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Bucknell University ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list. Located in the town of Lewisburg, Bucknell is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Bucknell are $59,802 a year.
Bucknell did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list.
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Lafayette College landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value bachelor’s degree engineering programs. Located in the suburb of Easton, Lafayette is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
Lafayette undergraduate students pay an average of $56,364 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
Lafayette did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list.
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Lehigh University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for engineering students to get a bachelor’s degree. It came in at #9 on the list. Lehigh is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Bethlehem.
Lehigh undergraduate students pay an average of $57,470 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Lehigh is ranked #4 for overall quality for engineering in Pennsylvania.
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Request InformationBest Value Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
Explore all the Best Value Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| New Jersey | 4,817 |
| New York | 12,696 |
| Maryland | 4,465 |
| Delaware | 580 |
| District of Columbia | 689 |
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| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| 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 averages are for the top 15 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).
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