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2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools in Colorado

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

6 Colleges
$19,922 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$68,682 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Mechanical Engineering 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 Schools in Colorado ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 6 schools in Colorado to see which ones offered the best value programs for ME students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Colorado

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

Best Colorado Schools for Affordable Quality in Mechanical Engineering

$9,384 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus to be the best value school for mechanical engineering students who want to pursue a degree in Colorado. Located in the large city of Denver, CU Anschutz is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at CU Anschutz are $9,384 per year.

CU Anschutz also made our Best Mechanical Engineering Schools in Colorado list, coming in at #5.

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$12,188 Average Tuition & Fees

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

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Colorado State are $12,188 per year.

Colorado State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Mechanical Engineering Schools in Colorado list.

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$12,610 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Colorado Boulder. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools in Colorado list. Located in the midsize city of Boulder, CU - Boulder is a public school with a fairly large student population.

CU - Boulder undergraduate students pay an average of $12,610 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

CU - Boulder did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Mechanical Engineering Schools in Colorado list.

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$19,538 Average Tuition & Fees

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

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Mines are $19,538 per year.

Mines also took the #1 spot in our Best Mechanical Engineering Schools in Colorado rankings.

Full Mechanical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines Report

$10,994 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best mechanical engineering schools in Colorado. UCCS is a fairly large public school located in the city of Colorado Springs.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UCCS are $10,994 per year.

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#6

University of Denver

Denver, CO
$54,819 Average Tuition & Fees

University of Denver did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value schools for mechanical engineering students. It came in at #6 on the list. Located in the large city of Denver, DU is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at DU are $54,819 per year.

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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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