2020 Most Affordable Online Master's in Mechanical Engineering Degrees

With annual tuitions under $18,000, these 25 online colleges offer the most affordable master's in mechanical engineering programs. The University of New Mexico, our top-ranked school, has the lowest tuition on the list at only $4,583 per year. UNM offers a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Space Systems Engineering. Ranked #2, the Kennesaw State University offers a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering at a tuition rate of $5,745 annually.
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Rank | School | Annual Tuition |
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University of New Mexico | $4,583 | |
Kennesaw State University | $5,745 | |
University of Alabama | $6,300 | |
Texas Tech University | $6,804 | |
Mississippi State University | $7,824 | |
University of Virginia | $8,115 | |
University of Idaho | $8,235 | |
University of South Carolina-Columbia | $8,583 | |
Old Dominion University | $8,925 | |
University of Central Florida | $10,422 | |
Iowa State University | $10,425 | |
University of North Dakota | $11,460 | |
Kansas State University | $11,473 | |
University of Cincinnati | $14,098 | |
Auburn University | $14,235 | |
Colorado State University-Fort Collins | $14,460 | |
University of Houston | $15,623 | |
University of Arizona | $16,000 | |
University of California - Los Angeles | $16,000 | |
University of Wisconsin - Madison | $16,000 | |
Georgia Institute of Technology | $16,500 | |
University of Delaware | $16,500 | |
The University of Texas at Austin | $16,811 | |
University of Michigan - Dearborn | $16,965 | |
University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign | $17,344 |
- Annual Tuition: $4,583
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 5,698
- Example Classes: Advanced Mechanics of Materials; Introduction to Space Situational Awareness; Orbital Mechanics; Satellite Communications; Small Spacecraft Design I; Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Controls
Online Master's Degrees
- MS in Mechanical Engineering
- MS in Mechanical Engineering - Space Systems Engineering
- Annual Tuition: $5,745
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 3,146
- Example Classes: Advance Engineering Thermodynamics; Advance Fluid Mechanics and Computational Fluid Dynamics; Advanced Dynamics and Vibrations; Advanced Engineering Heat Transfer; Advanced Solid Mechanics
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
- Annual Tuition: $6,300
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 5,362
- Example Classes: Foundations of Thermal Power Generation; Fundamentals of Energy Conservation & Management; Intermediate Dynamics; Intermediate Heat Transfer; Principles of Combustion I; Reliability Maintenance & Total Productive Maintenance
Online Master's Degrees
- MS in Mechanical Engineering
- Annual Tuition: $6,804
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 6,252
- Example Classes: Biomaterials; Computational Mechanics; Contact Mechanics; Elasticity; Fracture and Failure Analysis; Physical Metallurgy
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering - Design
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering - Materials and Mechanics
- Annual Tuition: $7,824
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 3,484
- Example Classes: Air Conditioning; Casting and Joining; Combustion Engines; Failure of Engineering Materials; Mechanical Metallurgy
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Non-Thesis Option)
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Thesis Option)
- Annual Tuition: $8,115
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 7,862
- Example Classes: Engineering Mathematics II; Finite Element Analysis; Linear State Space Systems; Multibody Mechanical Systems; Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Engineering in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Annual Tuition: $8,235
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: NWCCU
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 2,273
- Example Classes: Continuum Mechanics; Finite Element Analysis; Linear System Theory; Neural Network Design; Thermal Radiation Processes
Online Master's Degrees
- M.Engr. in Mechanical Engineering (Non-Thesis Option)
- Annual Tuition: $8,583
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 8,062
- Example Classes: Advanced Heat Transfer; Advanced Mechanics of Materials; Continuum Mechanics; Intermediate Dynamics; Intro to Finite Elements Analysis in Mechanical Engineering; Thermodynamics
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
- Annual Tuition: $8,925
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 4,804
- Example Classes: Advanced Classical Thermodynamics; Concurrent Engineering; Continuum Mechanics; Design of Experiments; Engineering Analysis; Heat Transfer
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering - Design and Manufacturing
- Annual Tuition: $10,422
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 9,654
- Example Classes: Analysis and Control of Robot Manipulators; Continuum Mechanics; Engineering Fracture Mechanics in Design; Fundamentals of Fatigue Analysis; Modal Analysis; Nonlinear Vibration
Online Master's Degrees
- Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Systems, MSME
- Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Systems, MSME (Non-Thesis)
- Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Systems, MSME (Thesis)
- Mechanical Engineering - Thermofluids, MSME
- Mechanical Engineering - Thermofluids, MSME (Non-Thesis)
- Mechanical Engineering - Thermofluids, MSME (Thesis)
- Annual Tuition: $10,425
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 5,371
- Example Classes: Material and Manufacturing Considerations in Design; Mechanics of Deformable Solids; Mechanics of Machining and Finishing Processes; Nanomechanics; Solar Energy Systems; Surface Engineering
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
- Annual Tuition: $11,460
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 3,328
- Example Classes: Advanced Machine Design; Convective Heat Transfer; Deformation and Fracture; Design Projects; Metal Fatigue in Engineering; Thermodynamics of Materials
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
- Annual Tuition: $11,473
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 4,352
- Example Classes: Finite Element Applications in Mechanical Engineering; Indoor Environmental Engineering; Intermediate Dynamics; Intermediate Fluid Mechanics; Thermal Systems Design; Thermodynamics of Modern Power Cycles
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
- Annual Tuition: $14,098
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 11,124
- Example Classes: Design for Manufacturability and Assembly; Effectiveness in Technical Organizations; Intelligent Systems Theory; Occupational Safety Engineering; Production Planning & Control; Quality Control
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
- Annual Tuition: $14,235
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 5,812
- Example Classes: Convection Heat Transfer; Mechanical Impact; Metalworking and Manufacturing Tribology; Stability and Vibration of Continuous Systems; Turbulence; Virtual Prototyping
Online Master's Degrees
- M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Non-Thesis Option)
- M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Thesis Option)
- Annual Tuition: $14,460
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 7,516
- Example Classes: Bioengineering; Cell and Tissue Engineering; Design and Data Analysis for Researchers; Materials Issues in Mechanical Design; Metals and Alloys; Simulation Modeling and Experimentation
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
- Annual Tuition: $15,623
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 7,976
- Example Classes: Continuum Mechs I; Control System Analysis and Design; Convection Heat Transfr; Methods of Applied Mathematics; Phase Transform in Materials; Physical Metallurgy
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Mechanical Engineering
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
- Annual Tuition: $16,000
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 9,944
- Example Classes: Advanced Engineering Analysis; Advanced Thermodynamics/Radiation; Conduction/Convective Transport Phenomena; Finite Element Methods; Mechanics of Deformable Solids; Planar Multibody Dynamics with Applications
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering - on‑Thesis/Coursework Only Option
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering - Report Option
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering - Thesis Option
- Annual Tuition: $16,000
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: WSCUC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 12,960
- Example Classes: Composites Manufacturing; Dynamics of Structures; Mechanical Design I; Mechanics of Intelligent Materials and Systems
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Science in Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
- Master of Science in Engineering with Certificate of Specialization in Mechanics of Structures
- Annual Tuition: $16,000
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 11,758
- Example Classes: Advanced Composite Materials; Advanced Polymer Processing; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Engineering Design with Polymers; Modeling and Simulation in Polymer Processing; Transport Phenomena in Polymer Processing
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Engineering: Polymer Engineering
- Annual Tuition: $16,500
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 16,674
- Example Classes: Fluid Film Lubrication; Inelastic Deformation of Solids; Mechanics of Contact; Micromechanics of Materials; Physical Properties of Pape; Rotordynamics
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
- Annual Tuition: $16,500
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: MSCHE
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 4,164
- Example Classes: Intermediate Dynamics; Intermediate Engineering Mathematics; Intermediate Fluid Mechanics; Intermediate Heat Transfer; Intermediate Solid Mechanics; Linear Systems
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
- Annual Tuition: $16,811
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: SACS COC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 11,028
- Example Classes: Applied Thermodynamics; Fluid Mechanics in Industrial Processes; Heat Transfer in Industrial Systems; Materials Processing; Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Physical Systems; The Enterprise of Technology
Online Master's Degrees
- Master's in Mechanical Engineering
- Annual Tuition: $16,965
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 2,283
- Example Classes: Advanced Stress Analysis; Automotive Composites; Degradation of Materials; Mechatronics; Theory of Gearing and Applications
Online Master's Degrees
- MSE in Automotive Systems Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
- MSE in Mechanical Engineering
- Annual Tuition: $17,344
- School Type: Non-Profit
- School Accreditation: HLC
- Total Graduate Enrollment: 15,787
- Example Classes: Computational Process Modeling; Control of Machine Systems; Convex Methods in Control; Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics; Thermal Systems
Online Master's Degrees
- Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
- Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering - Controls & Manufacturing
- Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering - Customized
- Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering - Design
- Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering - Energy
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Non-Thesis)