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2023 Best Value Engineering Mechanics Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$39,201 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$67,403 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Engineering Mechanics School for You

In 2020-2021, 11 degrees and certificates were awarded to engineering mechanics students who went to a Illinois college or university. This makes it the #185 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 Engineering Mechanics Schools in Illinois to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Illinois to see which programs offered the best value experiences for engineering mechanics students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Engineering Mechanics Schools in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for engineering mechanics majors pursuing a .

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality in Engineering Mechanics

$17,634 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to be the best value school for engineering mechanics students who want to pursue a degree in Illinois. UIUC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Champaign.

UIUC undergraduate students pay an average of $17,634 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UIUC not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Engineering Mechanics Schools in Illinois list.

Full Engineering Mechanics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Report

#2

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL
$60,768 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Northwestern University is a great value for engineering mechanics students. Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Evanston.

Northwestern undergraduate students pay an average of $60,768 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Northwestern did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Engineering Mechanics Schools in Illinois list.

Read full report on Engineering Mechanics at Northwestern University

Best Value Engineering Mechanics Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Engineering Mechanics Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 1
Ohio 2
Wisconsin 2

Engineering Mechanics is one of 39 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Engineering Mechanics

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252

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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Siemens Pressebild.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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