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2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools in Nevada

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$8,737 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$60,274 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Mechanical Engineering School for You

With 20 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, mechanical engineering is the #32 most popular major in Nevada.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

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 Schools in Nevada ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Nevada to see which 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 Schools in Nevada

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Mechanical Engineering Colleges.

Best Nevada Schools for Affordable Quality in Mechanical Engineering

$8,737 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Nevada - Reno the best value school in Nevada for mechanical engineering students. Located in the city of Reno, UNR is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UNR are $8,737 per year.

UNR also made our Best Mechanical Engineering Schools in Nevada list, coming in at #2.

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$8,737 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Nevada - Las Vegas is a great value for mechanical engineering students. UNLV is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Las Vegas.

UNLV undergraduate students pay an average of $8,737 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UNLV did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Mechanical Engineering Schools in Nevada list.

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering at University of Nevada - Las Vegas

Best Value Mechanical Engineering Colleges in the Far Western US Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
California 1,202
Washington 196
Oregon 86
Hawaii 15
Alaska 7

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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