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2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

11 Colleges
$22,630 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$73,134 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate School for You

Engineering Technologies is the #20 most popular major in the country with 85,188 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 11 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for engineering tech students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for engineering tech majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Top 10 Best Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate Schools

Our analysis found Illinois State University to be the best value school for engineering technologies students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the medium-sized suburb of Normal, Illinois State is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Illinois State graduate students pay an average of $11,773 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bowling Green State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the fringe town of Bowling Green, BGSU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

BGSU graduate students pay an average of $15,823 in tuition and fees each year.

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#3

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, IN

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Purdue University - Main Campus helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value engineering technologies schools in the Great Lakes Region . Purdue is a fairly large public school located in the city of West Lafayette.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Purdue are $28,794 per year.

Purdue excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 5% of all schools on our Best Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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#4

Indiana State University

Terre Haute, IN

Out of the 11 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana State University landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the city of Terre Haute, Indiana State is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Indiana State are $15,562 per year.

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Out of the 11 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University Northwest landed the # 5 spot on the list. Purdue Northwest is a medium-sized public school located in the large suburb of Hammond.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Purdue Northwest are $11,356 per year.

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Michigan Technological University landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate engineering technologies programs. Located in the town of Houghton, Michigan Tech is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Michigan Tech are $22,981 a year.

Michigan Tech also took the #2 spot in our Best Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region rankings.

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#7

University of Dayton

Dayton, OH

With a ranking of #7, University of Dayton did quite well on this year’s best value schools for engineering technologies students working on their graduate certificate. UDayton is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Dayton.

UDayton graduate students pay an average of $18,140 in tuition and fees each year.

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Ohio University - Athens Campus came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. OHIO Athens is a very large public school located in the town of Athens.

OHIO Athens graduate students pay an average of $17,712 in tuition and fees each year.

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#9

Eastern Illinois University

Charleston, IL

Eastern Illinois University ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. EIU is a medium-sized public school located in the town of Charleston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at EIU are $21,407 per year.

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#10

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

Northwestern University landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate engineering technologies programs. Northwestern is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Evanston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Northwestern are $56,567 per year.

Northwestern not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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Best Engineering Technologies Colleges by State

Explore the best engineering technologies schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Indiana 2,230
Michigan 2,201
Ohio 2,673
Illinois 1,478
Wisconsin 1,081

Engineering Tech Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Industrial Production Technology 11,906
Electromechanical Engineering Technology 10,593
Drafting & Design Engineering Technology 8,964
Environmental Control Technology 8,690
Electronics Engineering Technology 8,592
Engineering-Related Fields 6,736
Mechanical Engineering Technology 6,013
General Engineering Technology 4,676
Construction Engineering Technology 4,330
Quality Control Technology 3,824
Computer Engineering Technology 3,595
Engineering Technology (Other) 1,768
Architectural Engineering Technology 1,290
Energy Systems Technologies 1,256
Civil Engineering Technology 1,187
Engineering-Related Technologies 989
Mining & Petroleum Technology 445
Nuclear Engineering Technology 220
Nanotechnology 114

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer & Information Sciences 254,454
Engineering 198,468
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 177,778
Mathematics & Statistics 52,396
Physical Sciences 50,306

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 11 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 KUKA Systems GmbH.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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