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2023 Best Value Engineering Schools in Indiana

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

5 Colleges
$27,446 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$70,573 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Engineering School for You

In 2020-2021, engineering students earned 1,581 degrees and certificates from an Indiana school, making the subject the 4th in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. 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 Engineering Schools in Indiana ranking. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in Indiana to see which programs offered the best value experiences for engineering 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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Engineering Schools in Indiana

Check out the engineering programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Indiana Schools for Affordable Quality in Engineering

#1

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, IN
$9,992 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Purdue University - Main Campus the best value school in Indiana for engineering students. Located in the city of West Lafayette, Purdue is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Purdue are $9,992 a year.

Purdue also took the #2 spot in our Best Engineering Schools in Indiana rankings.

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$7,734 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Purdue University Northwest. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Schools in Indiana list. Located in the suburb of Hammond, Purdue Northwest is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Purdue Northwest are $7,734 a year.

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$10,044 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Engineering Schools in Indiana list. Located in the city of Indianapolis, IUPUI is a public school with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at IUPUI are $10,044 per year.

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$50,619 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Engineering Schools in Indiana list. Located in the city of Terre Haute, Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology undergraduate students pay an average of $50,619 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#5

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN
$58,843 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Notre Dame. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Engineering Schools in Indiana list. Located in the suburb of Notre Dame, Notre Dame is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Notre Dame are $58,843 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Notre Dame is ranked #1 for overall quality for engineering in Indiana.

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Best Value Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Illinois 2,311
Ohio 2,427
Wisconsin 755
Michigan 3,043

Engineering Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252
General Engineering 3,548
Systems Engineering 3,068
Industrial Engineering 3,028
Chemical Engineering 2,662
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering 2,375
Other Engineering 1,820
Materials Engineering 1,810
Operations Research 1,191
Electrical and Computer Engineering. 928
Environmental Engineering 919
Robotics Engineering 560
Engineering Science 451
Nuclear Engineering 437
Manufacturing Engineering 423
Petroleum Engineering 401
Agricultural Engineering 332
Construction Engineering 288
Engineering Physics 286
Architectural Engineering 243
Geoscience Engineering 173
Polymer & Plastics Engineering 167
Engineering Mechanics 144
Mining Engineering 132
Ocean Engineering 112
Textile Engineering 96
Biological Engineering 80
Energy Systems Engineering 79
Marine Engineering 44
Metallurgical Engineering 40
Biochemical Engineering 21
Ceramic Engineering 20
Electromechanical Engineering 16
Surveying Engineering 11
Paper Science & Engineering 7

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer & Information Sciences 60,971
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 28,851
Mathematics & Statistics 15,127
Physical Sciences 12,705
Engineering Technologies 7,672

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 5 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 Petty Officer 3rd Class Declan Barnes.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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