2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology in Illinois

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value ME Tech Schools for a Master’s in Illinois” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 3,813 people earned their degree in mechanical engineering/mechanical technology/technician, making the major the 186th most popular in the United States.

Across Illinois, there were 92 mechanical engineering/mechanical technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 mechanical engineering/mechanical technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,267 and $46,814 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality mechanical engineering/mechanical technology/technician programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the mechanical engineering/mechanical technology/technician program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value ME Tech Schools for a Master’s in Illinois

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value ME Tech Schools for a Master’s in Illinois.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology in Illinois

#1

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$56,567 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value ME Tech Schools for a Master’s in Illinois list. Evanston, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s ME tech degrees to 20 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Northwestern, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Northwestern are $56,567, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology at Northwestern University

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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