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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$24,054 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.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for engineering-related fields students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named Oklahoma State University - Main Campus the best value school in the Southwest Region for engineering-related fields students working on their graduate certificate. OSU is a very large public school located in the town of Stillwater.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at OSU are $24,175 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - Kingsville. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the distant town of Kingsville, Texas A&M Kingsville is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

Texas A&M Kingsville graduate students pay an average of $14,344 in tuition and fees each year.

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#3

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

Out of the 3 schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at University of Arizona are $33,644 per year.

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Explore the best engineering-related fields schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 262
Arizona 41
Oklahoma 8
New Mexico 6

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 3 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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