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

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$19,803 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Mechanical Engineering Graduate Certificate School for You

Mechanical Engineering is the #21 most popular major in the country with 46,178 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Mechanical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Southwest Region to see which graduate certificate 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. 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 Mechanical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

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

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

Our analysis found University of North Texas to be the best value school for mechanical engineering students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Southwest Region . UNT is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Denton.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UNT are $15,600 a year.

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering at University of North Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend The University of Texas at Arlington. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Mechanical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the large city of Arlington, UT Arlington is a public college with a very large student population.

UT Arlington graduate students pay an average of $24,005 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington Report

Best Mechanical Engineering Colleges by State

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

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 3,806
Arizona 804
Oklahoma 521
New Mexico 280

One of 40 majors within the area of study, mechanical engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

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.

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