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2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$50,246 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$59,611 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.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right 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 Mechanical Engineering 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. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which programs offered the best value experiences for ME tech 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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Technology Schools in the Great Lakes Region

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

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Mechanical Engineering

Our analysis found Michigan Technological University to be the best value school for mechanical engineering technology students who want to pursue a degree in the Great Lakes Region . Michigan Tech is a moderately-sized public school located in the remote town of Houghton.

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 in the Great Lakes Region list.

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering Technology at Michigan Technological University

#2

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

Out of the 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

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

Northwestern not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Mechanical Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

Full Mechanical Engineering Technology at Northwestern University Report

Best Mechanical Engineering Technology Colleges by State

Explore the best mechanical engineering technology schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 11
Illinois 23

One of 16 majors within the area of study, mechanical engineering technology has other similar majors worth exploring.

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 2 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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