2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering in Wisconsin

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Wisconsin” 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 Wisconsin, there were 852 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $67,833 and $24,905 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 67 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Wisconsin” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the mechanical engineering 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 Schools for a Master’s in Wisconsin

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering in Wisconsin

#1

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Madison, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$25,523 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$85,608 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Wisconsin list. University of Wisconsin - Madison is a large public school situated in Madison, Wisconsin. It awarded 57 masters’s ME degrees in 2019-2020.

UW - Madison not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Wisconsin - Madison are $25,523.

Read more about Mechanical Engineering at University of Wisconsin - Madison

#2

Marquette University

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

#2 in overall quality

$21,690 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marquette University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Wisconsin list. Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 10 diplomas to qualified masters’s ME students in 2019-2020.

Marquette not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Marquette University are $21,690, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Mechanical Engineering at Marquette

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Michel Villeneuve.

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