CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Value Colleges (www.valuecolleges.com), an independent online guide to the best values in undergraduate and graduate college education, is proud to release its Top 50 Best Value Engineering Programs of 2015 at http://www.valuecolleges.com/rankings/best-value-engineering-programs/.
Value Colleges' Top 50 Best Value Engineering list is designed to guide interested students to the colleges and universities that combine the value of affordable tuition rates with educational excellence. These 50 schools prepare engineering students for graduate school and employment, providing a reputable degree that will carry a strong reputation to the job market.
We build our list using the following criteria:
average 20-year ROI from Payscale.com
national ranking (U.S. News & World Report)
real tuition cost (from college website)
Value Colleges ranks the top three best values for 2015 as (1) Georgia Tech, (2) Texas A&M, and (3) Purdue University.
Other schools making the list include (in alphabetical order):
Arizona State University, Tempe – Tempe, AZ
Auburn University – Auburn, AL
Brigham Young University – Provo, UT
Brown University – Providence, RI
Caltech – Los Angeles, CA
Carnegie Mellon University – Pittsburgh, PA
Case Western Reserve University – Cleveland, OH
Colorado School of Mines – Golden, CO
Cornell University – Ithaca, NY
Duke University – Durham, NC
Georgia Tech – Atlanta, GA
Harvard University – Cambridge, MA
Iowa State University – Ames, IA
Johns Hopkins University – Baltimore, MD
Lehigh University – Bethlehem, PA
MIT – Cambridge, MA
Michigan Technological University – Houghton, MI
Missouri University of Science & Technology – Rolla, MO
North Carolina State University – Raleigh, NC
Ohio State University, Columbus – Columbus, OH
Penn State, University Park – University Park, PA
Princeton University – Princeton, NJ
Purdue University, West Lafayette – West Lafayette, IN
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Troy, NY
Rice University – Houston, TX
Rutgers University – New Brunswick, NJ
Stanford University – Stanford, CA
Texas A&M University, College Station – College Station, TX
UCLA – Los Angeles, CA
University of California Berkeley – Berkeley, CA
University of California Davis – Davis, CA
University of California Irvine – Irvine, CA
University of California, San Diego – San Diego, CA
University of Colorado, Boulder – Boulder, CO
University of Delaware – Newark, DE
University of Florida – Gainesville, FL
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – Urbana-Champaign, IL
University of Maryland, College Park – College Park, MD
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities – Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, PA
University of Texas, Austin – Austin, TX
University of Utah – Salt Lake City, UT
University of Virginia – Charlottesville, VA
University of Washington – Seattle, WA
University of Wisconsin-Madison – Madison, WI
Vanderbilt University – Nashville, TN
Virginia Tech – Blacksburg, VA
Worcester Polytechnic Institute – Worchester, MA
Yale University – New Haven, CT
"There are a handful of careers that can almost guarantee a high return on investment," said Value Colleges Carrie Sealey-Morris, "but for people who like hands-on experimentation, complex projects, and dreaming big, engineering is the way to go." There are distinct advantages to a residential program over online when it comes to engineering, particularly access to laboratories and locations in strong industry job markets. And though the most elite engineering programs may have high price tags, "the top schools are interested in getting the very best students, and financial aid is usually generous. Some of the most elite will even meet all of a student's need without student loans, all for the sake of getting the very best."
Value Colleges is an independent, online resource with one mission: to help prospective students find the best educational value in their chosen field. At Value Colleges future students can find rankings for the top investments in online and residential college degrees, advice on making the best decisions about finances when in college, and explanations of commonly-misunderstood aspects of college costs.
Contact:
Carrie Sealey-Morris
Editor, Value Colleges
(512) 710-9901
Email