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2023 Best Value Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$24,149 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.

The Best Value Engineering Technologies Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in the Southwest Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for engineering tech students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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 Southwest Region

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

Best Southwest Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Engineering Technologies

Our 2023 rankings named Arizona State University - Tempe the best value school in the Southwest Region for engineering technologies students working on their graduate certificate. ASU - Tempe is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Tempe.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at ASU - Tempe are $24,432 a year.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Oklahoma State University - Main Campus is a great value for engineering technologies students working on their graduate certificate. OSU is a very large public school located in the town of Stillwater.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at OSU are $24,175 per year.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Texas A&M University - Kingsville helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value engineering technologies schools in the Southwest Region . Located in the distant town of Kingsville, Texas A&M Kingsville is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

Texas A&M Kingsville graduate students pay an average of $14,344 in tuition and fees each year.

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#4

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means University of Arizona is a great value for engineering technologies students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at University of Arizona are $33,644 per year.

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Best Engineering Technologies Colleges by State

Explore the best engineering technologies colleges for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 502
Texas 4,414
New Mexico 223
Oklahoma 687

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 4 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.

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