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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$32,771 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$103,564 Avg Salary

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

Mechanical Engineering is the #53 most popular major in Tennessee with 65 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Mechanical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Tennessee ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Tennessee 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.

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.

2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee

Check out the ME doctor's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

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

Our 2023 rankings named The University of Tennessee - Knoxville the best value school in Tennessee for mechanical engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. UT Knoxville is a fairly large public school located in the city of Knoxville.

UT Knoxville graduate students pay an average of $13,380 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, UT Knoxville is ranked #5 for overall quality for ME in Tennessee.

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#2

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Mechanical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee list. Vanderbilt is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Nashville.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Vanderbilt are $52,162 per year.

Vanderbilt also made our Best Mechanical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee list, coming in at #1.

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Best Value Mechanical Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 90
Florida 467
Georgia 312
North Carolina 215
Kentucky 61
Louisiana 12
Alabama 97
South Carolina 129
Mississippi 24
Arkansas 6
West Virginia 25

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

Majors Similar to ME

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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