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2022 Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k

6 Ranked Colleges
210 Degrees Awarded
$34,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value ME Schools for a Master's in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Mechanical Engineering is the 20th most popular major in the country with 47,598 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, mechanical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $64,495 and had an average of $23,104 in loans still to pay off.

Across Colorado, there were 1,330 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,363 and $24,691 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 210 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,789 and $41,587 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent mechanical engineering 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 mechanical engineering 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 ME Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado master’s degree me students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 6 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in Colorado

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado State University - Fort Collins landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Fort Collins, Colorado, and it awarded 33 masters’s ME degrees in 2019-2020.

Colorado State also made our “Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list, coming in at #3. Average graduate tuition and fees at Colorado State University - Fort Collins are $28,055, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Boulder. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k. CU - Boulder is located in Boulder, Colorado and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 94 masters’s ME degrees to qualified students.

CU - Boulder also took the #2 spot in our “Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at CU - Boulder are $32,980, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k. CU Anschutz is located in Denver, Colorado and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 13 masters’s ME degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at CU Anschutz, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus are $23,915.

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#4

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, Colorado

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k list. University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 5 masters’s ME degrees to qualified students.

UCCS did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs are $25,774.

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#5

Colorado School of Mines

Golden, Colorado

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado School of Mines landed the #5 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Golden, Colorado, and it awarded 56 masters’s ME degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Mines, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Mines are $39,800, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#6

University of Denver

Denver, Colorado
#4 in overall quality

With a ranking of #6, University of Denver did quite well on the 2022 Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k list. Denver, Colorado is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s ME degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

DU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Denver are $52,899, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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%.

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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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