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2023 Best Value Engineering Schools in Montana

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$7,437 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$63,704 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Engineering School for You

In 2020-2021, engineering students earned 700 degrees and certificates from a Montana school, making the subject the 5th in the state.

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 Schools in Montana to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Montana to see which ones offered the best value programs for engineering 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 Schools in Montana

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

Best Montana Schools for Affordable Quality in Engineering

$7,346 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Montana Technological University the best value school in Montana for engineering students. Located in the town of Butte, Montana Tech is a public school with a small student population.

Montana Tech undergraduate students pay an average of $7,346 in in-state tuition and fees each year. The average amount in student loans that engineering majors at Montana Tech take out is $27,000.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Montana Tech is ranked #2 for overall quality for engineering in Montana.

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$7,528 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in Montana that were part of this year’s ranking, Montana State University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the remote town of Bozeman, MSU Bozeman is a public school with a large student population.

MSU Bozeman undergraduate students pay an average of $7,528 in in-state tuition and fees each year. Engineering majors at MSU Bozeman take out an average of $23,762 in student loans while working on their egree. Assuming that a graduate chooses a 10-year repayment plan, the average monthly loan payment is $285.

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Best Value Engineering Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Explore all the Best Value Engineering Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 4,398
Utah 2,169
Idaho 877
Wyoming 327

Engineering Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Electrical Engineering 28,844
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917
Biomedical Engineering 12,811
General Engineering 11,796
Industrial Engineering 9,072
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering 8,001
Systems Engineering 3,904
Materials Engineering 3,415
Other Engineering 2,760
Environmental Engineering 2,759
Operations Research 1,698
Agricultural Engineering 1,472
Engineering Science 1,454
Electrical and Computer Engineering. 1,378
Petroleum Engineering 1,256
Robotics Engineering 1,243
Architectural Engineering 1,012
Engineering Physics 994
Manufacturing Engineering 947
Construction Engineering 878
Nuclear Engineering 864
Marine Engineering 445
Biological Engineering 410
Polymer & Plastics Engineering 360
Geoscience Engineering 325
Mining Engineering 314
Textile Engineering 310
Ocean Engineering 285
Engineering Mechanics 272
Metallurgical Engineering 179
Energy Systems Engineering 138
Biochemical Engineering 109
Ceramic Engineering 94
Surveying Engineering 73
Electromechanical Engineering 45
Forest Engineering 41
Paper Science & Engineering 27
Engineering Chemistry 13

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer & Information Sciences 254,454
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 177,778
Engineering Technologies 85,188
Mathematics & Statistics 52,396
Physical Sciences 50,306

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 Petty Officer 3rd Class Declan Barnes.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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