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2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$26,344 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$64,776 Avg Salary

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

In 2020-2021, 140 degrees and certificates were awarded to mechanical engineering students who went to a Rhode Island college or university. This makes it the #40 most popular major in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Value Mechanical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Rhode Island to see which bachelor'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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Mechanical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Colleges.

Best Rhode Island Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering

Our analysis found University of Rhode Island to be the best value school for mechanical engineering students who want to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Rhode Island. URI is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Kingston.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at URI are $15,332 a year. ME majors at URI take out an average of $22,421 in student loans while working on their Bachelor's Degree. The average monthly payment of a loan this size is about $322, assuming that the borrower is on a 10-year repayment plan.

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The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Roger Williams University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value mechanical engineering schools in Rhode Island. RWU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Bristol.

RWU undergraduate students pay an average of $37,355 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

RWU did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Mechanical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island list.

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Best Value Mechanical Engineering Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 2,089
Connecticut 538
New Hampshire 125
Maine 105
Vermont 132

Mechanical Engineering is one of 40 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to ME

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 28,844
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917
Biomedical Engineering 12,811

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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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