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2023 Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Schools

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$32,687 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$43,263 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology School for You

Drafting & Design Engineering Technology is the #246 most popular major in the country with 145 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. 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 assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Schools ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the United States to see which programs offered the best value experiences for design engineering tech 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.

2023 Best Value Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Schools in the United States

Check out the design engineering tech programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Schools for Affordable Quality in Drafting & Design Engineering

$15,500 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Eastern Michigan University to be the best value school for drafting and design engineering technology students who want to pursue a degree in the United States. Eastern Michigan is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Ypsilanti.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Eastern Michigan are $15,500 per year.

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#2

Academy of Art University

San Francisco, CA
$25,424 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Academy of Art University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best drafting and design engineering technology schools in the United States. Academy of Art University is a moderately-sized private for-profit school located in the city of San Francisco.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Academy of Art University are $25,424 per year.

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#3

Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA
$57,136 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Drexel University landed the # 3 spot on the list. Drexel is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Philadelphia.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Drexel are $57,136 a year.

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Drafting & Design Engineering Technology by Region

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

Drafting & Design Engineering Technology is one of 16 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Engineering-Related Fields 4,838
Quality Control Technology 736
Industrial Production Technology 440
Engineering Technology (Other) 288
Construction Engineering Technology 264

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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 Pixabay.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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