2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Mechanical Engineering Graduate Certificate School for You

Mechanical Engineering is the #32 most popular major in the country with 9,007 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Mechanical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to see which graduate certificate 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 Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region

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

Best Southeast Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Mechanical Engineering

#1

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

56 Graduate Certificates

#21 in Quality in the Southeast Region

$30,130 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Florida to be the best value school for mechanical engineering students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Southeast Region . UF is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Gainesville.

UF graduate students pay an average of $30,130 in tuition and fees each year.

UF excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Mechanical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list.

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#2

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Charlotte, NC

3 Graduate Certificates

#25 in Quality in the Southeast Region

$21,147 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Mechanical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. UNC Charlotte is a very large public school located in the city of Charlotte.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UNC Charlotte are $21,147 a year.

UNC Charlotte excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Mechanical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list.

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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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