2023 Best Value Mechanical Engineering Basic Certificate Schools in the Far Western US Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Mechanical Engineering Technology Basic Certificate School for You

Mechanical Engineering Technology is the #25 most popular major in the country with 6,205 degrees and certificates awarded in 2021-2022.

It's not easy to decide which trade school program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 Basic Certificate Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Far Western US Region to see which basic certificate programs offered the best value experiences for me tech students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

Best Far Western US Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Mechanical Engineering

#1

National University

San Diego, CA

#1 in Quality in the Far Western US Region

$13,320 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named National University the best value school in the Far Western US Region for mechanical engineering technology students working on their basic certificate. National University is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of San Diego.

National University undergraduate students pay an average of $13,320 in tuition and fees each year.

National University also took the #1 spot in our Best Mechanical Engineering Basic Certificate Trade Schools in the Far Western US Region rankings.

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#2

International Air and Hospitality Academy

Vancouver, WA

188 Basic Certificates

Out of the 2 schools in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, International Air and Hospitality Academy landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the medium-sized city of Vancouver, International Air and Hospitality Academy is a private for-profit school with a small student population.

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Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools 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.