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2023 Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Colleges
$23,920 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$73,134 Avg Salary

Out of all the majors we analyze each year, engineering-related fields was ranked #51 in the country. In fact 4,838 degrees and certificates were handed out in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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.

The Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 5 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for engineering-related fields students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Check out the engineering-related fields graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Our 2023 rankings named Bowling Green State University - Main Campus the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for engineering-related fields students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the fringe town of Bowling Green, BGSU is a public school with a large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at BGSU are $15,823 per year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Purdue University Northwest. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Purdue Northwest is a medium-sized public school located in the suburb of Hammond.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Purdue Northwest are $11,356 per year.

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#3

University of Dayton

Dayton, OH

Out of the 5 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Dayton landed the # 3 spot on the list. UDayton is a large private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Dayton.

UDayton graduate students pay an average of $18,140 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Ohio University - Athens Campus. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. OHIO Athens is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Athens.

OHIO Athens graduate students pay an average of $17,712 in tuition and fees each year.

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#5

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Northwestern University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Northwestern is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Evanston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Northwestern are $56,567 per year.

Northwestern also took the #1 spot in our Best Engineering-Related Fields Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region rankings.

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Explore the best engineering-related fields colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 237
Illinois 154
Ohio 255
Indiana 206

One of 16 majors within the area of study, engineering-related fields has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Quality Control Technology 736
Industrial Production Technology 440
Engineering Technology (Other) 288
Construction Engineering Technology 264
General Engineering Technology 255

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 5 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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