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2023 Best Value Engineering Mechanics Schools in the Southeast Region

1 Ranked Colleges
50 Degrees Awarded
$21,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Engineering Mechanics Schools in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Engineering Mechanics Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 272 people earned their degree in engineering mechanics, making the major the 308th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, engineering mechanics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $64,399 and had an average of $24,558 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 50 engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,144 and $28,000 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent engineering mechanics programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the engineering mechanics program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Engineering Mechanics Schools in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Engineering Mechanics Schools in the Southeast Region.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Engineering Mechanics in the Southeast Region

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Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Tech. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Engineering Mechanics Schools in the Southeast Region. Virginia Tech is a large school located in Blacksburg, Virginia that handed out 48 ’s engineering mechanics degrees in 2020-2021.

Virginia Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Engineering Mechanics Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Virginia Tech is $21,301 for Southeast Region Engineering Mechanics students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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