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2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$60,768 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$57,372 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Mechanical Engineering Technology School for You

With 23 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, mechanical engineering technology is the #160 most popular major in Illinois.

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools in Illinois to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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

Best Mechanical Engineering Technology School

#1

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL
$60,768 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Northwestern University the best value school in Illinois for mechanical engineering technology students. Northwestern is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Evanston.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Northwestern are $60,768 a year.

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

Full Mechanical Engineering Technology at Northwestern University Report

Best Value Mechanical Engineering Technology Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Mechanical Engineering Technology Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 11

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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