2022 Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Making $75-$110k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 ME Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Kentucky, there were 423 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,375 and $23,481 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 57 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,847 and $34,311 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for kentucky master’s degree me students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering (Income $75-$110k) in Kentucky

#1

University of Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

#2 in overall quality

$27,575 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$83,388 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Louisville. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Making $75-$110k. Louisville, Kentucky is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s ME degrees to 43 students in 2019-2020.

UofL did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UofL are $27,575.

Read more about Mechanical Engineering at University of Louisville

#2

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$33,216 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value ME Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Making $75-$110k list. Lexington, Kentucky is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s ME degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

UK did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UK are $33,216, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Mechanical Engineering at University of Kentucky

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering (Income $75-$110k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering (Income $75-$110k)

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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