2025 Best General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
6Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
710Associate Degrees
If you pursue a associate degree in general engineering, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #54 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 6 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of general engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 710 associate degrees in general engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great General Engineering School for Your Associate Degree
The engineering associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general engineering students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general engineering related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general engineering students working on their associate degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).