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2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in South Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$12,965 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$103,564 Avg Salary

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

In 2020-2021, 129 degrees and certificates were awarded to mechanical engineering students who went to a South Carolina college or university. This makes it the #22 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

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 South Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in South Carolina 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 South Carolina

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

Best South Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering

#1

Clemson University

Clemson, SC

Our 2023 rankings named Clemson University the best value school in South Carolina for mechanical engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. Clemson is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Clemson.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Clemson are $11,796 per year.

Clemson did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Mechanical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in South Carolina list.

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of South Carolina - Columbia. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Mechanical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in South Carolina list. Located in the midsize city of Columbia, UofSC is a public school with a fairly large student population.

UofSC graduate students pay an average of $14,134 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UofSC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Mechanical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in South Carolina list.

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering at University of South Carolina - Columbia

Best Value Mechanical Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 90
Florida 467
Georgia 312
North Carolina 215
Tennessee 65
Kentucky 61
Louisiana 12
Alabama 97
Mississippi 24
Arkansas 6
West Virginia 25

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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