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Community College Paths to ET Bachelor’s Degrees
Compiled by Joseph Roy
In the United States, 354 colleges and universities award bachelor’s degrees in engineering technology, including 39 community colleges. These primarily two-year schools accounted for 1,114 of the 17,856 ET bachelor’s degrees awarded in 2020. According to a report by the nonpartisan Education Commission of the States, nearly half of all states allow community colleges to award bachelor’s degrees in some fashion; some limit the number of programs or require demonstration of a direct regional workforce need. Of the nonrural institutions that award ET bachelor’s degrees, fewer than one-tenth are community colleges (31 out of 336); for rural institutions, the community college proportion is nearly half (8 of 18). Although the total number of ET bachelor’s degrees conferred may seem small, community colleges produce a sizable share of the nation’s skilled workers in certain fields.
Source: US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2020, Degree Completions;
https://www.ecs.org/wp-content/uploads/Community-College-Bachelors-Degrees.pdf.
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