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2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Colorado

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

6 Colleges
$21,748 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$83,900 Avg Salary

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

With 193 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, mechanical engineering is the #32 most popular major in Colorado.

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.

The Best Value Mechanical Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Colorado ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 6 schools in Colorado to see which master'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 Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for ME majors pursuing a master's degree.

Best Colorado Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Mechanical Engineering

Our 2023 rankings named University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus the best value school in Colorado for mechanical engineering students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Denver, CU Anschutz is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at CU Anschutz are $8,052 a year.

CU Anschutz did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado list.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Colorado Boulder is a great value for mechanical engineering students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Boulder, CU - Boulder is a public college with a very large student population.

CU - Boulder graduate students pay an average of $13,901 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

CU - Boulder not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado list.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado list. Colorado State is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Fort Collins.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Colorado State are $13,313 per year.

Colorado State not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado list.

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A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Colorado School of Mines is a great value for mechanical engineering students working on their master’s degree. Mines is a moderately-sized public school located in the suburb of Golden.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Mines are $19,532 a year.

Mines not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado list.

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Out of the 6 schools in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs landed the # 5 spot on the list. UCCS is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Colorado Springs.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UCCS are $13,854 a year.

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#6

University of Denver

Denver, CO

University of Denver landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree mechanical engineering programs. Located in the large city of Denver, DU is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at DU are $53,943 per year.

DU did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado list.

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Best Value Mechanical Engineering Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Utah 120
Idaho 31
Montana 7
Wyoming 15

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 6 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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