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2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$38,974 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$54,639 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Mechanical Engineering Technology School for You

Mechanical Engineering Technology is the #260 most popular major in the country with 104 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value programs for ME tech students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Technology Schools in the United States

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for ME tech majors pursuing a .

Best Schools for Affordable Quality in Mechanical Engineering

$7,360 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found American Public University System to be the best value school for mechanical engineering technology students who want to pursue a degree in the United States. Located in the fringe town of Charles Town, American Military University is a private for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at American Military University are $7,360 a year.

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering Technology at American Public University System

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan Technological University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools list. Located in the town of Houghton, Michigan Tech is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

Michigan Tech undergraduate students pay an average of $39,723 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, Michigan Tech is in the top 5% of all schools on our Best Mechanical Engineering Schools list.

Full Mechanical Engineering Technology at Michigan Technological University Report

#3

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools list. Northwestern is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Evanston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Northwestern are $60,768 per year.

In addition to its great value ranking, Northwestern is in the top 1% of all schools on our Best Mechanical Engineering Schools list.

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$48,044 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Art Center College of Design landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the medium-sized city of Pasadena, Art Center College of Design is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

Art Center College of Design undergraduate students pay an average of $48,044 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Mechanical Engineering Technology at Art Center College of Design Report

Mechanical Engineering Technology by Region

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

Mechanical Engineering Technology is one of 16 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Engineering-Related Fields 4,838
Quality Control Technology 736
Industrial Production Technology 440
Engineering Technology (Other) 288
Construction Engineering Technology 264

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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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