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2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate Schools in Alabama

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$4,035 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$73,134 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate School for You

Engineering Technologies is one of the most popular subjects to study in Alabama. With 418 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 8th out of all the majors we track in the state.

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 Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate Schools in Alabama 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 Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate School

#1

Columbia Southern University

Orange Beach, AL

Our analysis found Columbia Southern University to be the best value school for engineering technologies students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Alabama. Located in the town of Orange Beach, Columbia Southern University is a private for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Columbia Southern University are $4,035 a year.

Columbia Southern University also made our Best Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate Schools in Alabama list, coming in at #2.

Full Engineering Technologies at Columbia Southern University Report

Best Value Engineering Technologies Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Engineering Technologies Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Mississippi 3
Florida 358
Virginia 8
Tennessee 59
North Carolina 256
Georgia 79
West Virginia 69
Louisiana 61
South Carolina 51
Kentucky 138
Arkansas 468

Engineering Tech Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Engineering-Related Fields 4,838
Quality Control Technology 736
Industrial Production Technology 440
Engineering Technology (Other) 288
Construction Engineering Technology 264
General Engineering Technology 255
Computer Engineering Technology 179
Drafting & Design Engineering Technology 145
Mechanical Engineering Technology 104
Nanotechnology 98
Energy Systems Technologies 95
Environmental Control Technology 89
Electromechanical Engineering Technology 43
Architectural Engineering Technology 39
Electronics Engineering Technology 39
Engineering-Related Technologies 15

Related Major Annual Graduates
Engineering 61,791
Computer & Information Sciences 60,971
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 28,851
Mathematics & Statistics 15,127
Physical Sciences 12,705

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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to KUKA Systems GmbH.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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