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2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$48,044 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,681 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Mechanical Engineering Technology School for You

With 5 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, mechanical engineering technology is the #239 most popular major in California.

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.

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 in California ranking.

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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Mechanical Engineering Technology Colleges.

Best Mechanical Engineering Technology School

$48,044 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Art Center College of Design the best value school in California for mechanical engineering technology students. Located in the city of Pasadena, Art Center College of Design is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

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

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering Technology at Art Center College of Design

Best Value Mechanical Engineering Technology Colleges in the Far Western US Region

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State Degrees Awarded
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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 values are for the top school 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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