I agree, that with ABET accredited engineering programs you have decent quality control. One thing about keeping costs down is that you can sustain support over a longer period of time. When our daughter’s scholarship cut our out of pocket expenses below half of what we budgeted for undergrad, we told her that now we can possibly help her with some expenses when/if she goes to graduate school. And she can do undergraduate school debt free. That is quite a gift for a young person starting out these days.