2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Mechanical Engineering Technology Associate Degree School for You

In 2021-2022, 165 degrees and certificates were awarded to mechanical engineering technology students who went to a New Jersey college or university. This makes it the #17 most popular major in the state.

There are so many trade school programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Trade College Search has created its Best Value Mechanical Engineering Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Best Mechanical Engineering Technology Associate Degree School

#1

Brookdale Community College

Lincroft, NJ

35 Associate Degrees

#8 in Quality in New Jersey

$8,948 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Brookdale Community College to be the best value school for mechanical engineering technology students who want to pursue a associate degree in New Jersey. Brookdale Community College is a moderately-sized public school located in the rural area of Lincroft.

Brookdale Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $8,948 in in-state tuition and fees each year. ME Tech majors at Brookdale Community College take out an average of $14,762 in student loans while working on their Associate Degree.

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Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

• 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 the rest 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.