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2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Indiana

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$34,327 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$103,564 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Mechanical Engineering Doctor's Degree School for You

With 282 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, mechanical engineering is the #31 most popular major in Indiana.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Mechanical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Indiana to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Indiana to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for ME 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 Mechanical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Indiana

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Mechanical Engineering Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Best Indiana Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering

#1

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, IN

Our 2023 rankings named Purdue University - Main Campus the best value school in Indiana for mechanical engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. Purdue is a very large public school located in the city of West Lafayette.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Purdue are $9,992 per year.

Purdue also made our Best Mechanical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Indiana list, coming in at #3.

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University - Main Campus

#2

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Notre Dame helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value mechanical engineering schools in Indiana. Notre Dame is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Notre Dame.

Notre Dame graduate students pay an average of $58,662 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Notre Dame is ranked #1 for overall quality for ME in Indiana.

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Best Value Mechanical Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 592
Illinois 346
Ohio 395
Wisconsin 96

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

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252
General Engineering 3,548

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 Michel Villeneuve.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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