2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools in Mississippi

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Mechanical Engineering School for You

Mechanical Engineering is the #26 most popular major in Mississippi with 309 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

The Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools in Mississippi 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 Mississippi to see which 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 Schools in Mississippi

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

Best Mississippi Schools for Affordable Quality in Mechanical Engineering

#1

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, MS

216 Degrees

#2 in Quality in Mississippi

$9,220 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Mississippi State University to be the best value school for mechanical engineering students who want to pursue a degree in Mississippi. Located in the town of Mississippi State, Mississippi State is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Mississippi State are $9,220 a year. The average amount in student loans that ME majors at Mississippi State take out is $22,500. Assuming that a graduate chooses a 10-year repayment plan, the average monthly loan payment is $183.

Mississippi State also made our Best Mechanical Engineering Schools in Mississippi list, coming in at #2.

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#2

University of Mississippi

University, MS

88 Degrees

#1 in Quality in Mississippi

$9,044 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at University of Mississippi helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best mechanical engineering schools in Mississippi. Located in the remote town of University, Ole Miss is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Ole Miss are $9,044 per year. On average, ME graduates from Ole Miss take out $26,000 in student loans while working on their degree.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Ole Miss is ranked #1 for overall quality for ME in Mississippi.

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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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