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2022 Best Vallue ME Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Making Over $110k

6 Ranked Colleges
241 Degrees Awarded
$36,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Vallue ME Schools for a Master's in Indiana For Those Making Over $110k

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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 Indiana, there were 1,384 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,750 and $23,400 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 241 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,737 and $39,894 respectively.

This year’s “Best Vallue ME Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Making Over $110k” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great mechanical engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the mechanical engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Vallue ME Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue ME Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 6 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering (Income Over $110k) in Indiana

#1

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Best Vallue ME Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Making Over $110k. Purdue is a large public school situated in West Lafayette, Indiana. It awarded 121 masters’s ME degrees in 2019-2020.

Purdue also took the #1 spot in our “Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Indiana” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue University - Main Campus are $28,794, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Mechanical Engineering at Purdue

#2

Purdue University Northwest

Hammond, Indiana
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Vallue ME Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University Northwest landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Hammond, Indiana, and it awarded 28 masters’s ME degrees in 2019-2020.

Purdue Northwest did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Indiana” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue University Northwest are $11,633, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University Northwest

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Vallue ME Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis landed the #3 spot on the list. Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis is a public institution located in Indianapolis, Indiana. The school has a large population, and it awarded 80 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

IUPUI also took the #4 spot in our “Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Indiana” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at IUPUI are $26,013.

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#4

Trine University

Angola, Indiana

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Vallue ME Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Trine University landed the #4 spot on the list. This small school is located in Angola, Indiana, and it awarded 1 masters’s ME degrees in 2019-2020.

Trine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Indiana” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Trine University are $42,398, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Mechanical Engineering at Trine

#5

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, Indiana
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Notre Dame. The school came in at #5 for the Best Vallue ME Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Making Over $110k. Located in Notre Dame, Indiana, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 9 degrees to qualified masters’s ME students in 2019-2020.

Notre Dame also took the #2 spot in our “Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Indiana” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Notre Dame are $57,522, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#3 in overall quality

Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology ranked #6 on this year’s Best Vallue ME Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Making Over $110k list. This small school is located in Terre Haute, Indiana, and it awarded 2 masters’s ME degrees in 2019-2020.

Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology also made our “Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Indiana” list, coming in at #3. Average graduate tuition and fees at Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology are $50,379, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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%.

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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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