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2023 Best Value Science Technologies Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$60,768 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$53,132 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Science Technologies / Technicians School for You

Science Technologies / Technicians is the #34 most popular major in the country with 79 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Science Technologies Schools in the Great Lakes 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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Science Technologies / Technicians Colleges.

Best Science Technologies / Technicians School

#1

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

Our 2023 rankings named Northwestern University the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for science technologies / technicians students. Northwestern is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Evanston.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Northwestern are $60,768 a year.

Northwestern also took the #1 spot in our Best Science Technologies Schools in the Great Lakes Region rankings.

Read full report on Science Technologies / Technicians at Northwestern University

Best Science Technologies / Technicians Colleges by State

Explore the best science technologies / technicians colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Illinois 13
Ohio 0
Wisconsin 0

Science Tech Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Other Science Technologies/Technicians 56
Physical Science Technicians 13
Nuclear & Radiological Technicians 4
General Science Technologies/Technicians 3
Biology & Biotech Lab Technician 3

Related Major Annual Graduates
Engineering 61,791
Computer & Information Sciences 60,971
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 28,851
Mathematics & Statistics 15,127
Physical Sciences 12,705

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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