Online ABET-Accredited Engineering Degrees: 7 Bachelor’s Programs and 29 Master’s Routes

Key Findings About Online Engineering Degrees

1. You have 7 online bachelor’s programs at 4 universities to compare. There are also 29 online master’s routes and 7 online doctoral routes in the data.
2. All 7 online bachelor’s programs list ABET accreditation. That includes Oregon State, ASU Online, North Dakota and Mississippi State.
3. The online bachelor’s options are mechanical (3) and electrical (4) engineering. For a general engineering degree, the online options are at the master’s level.
4. 3 of the 7 are fully online. Oregon State and ASU Online mechanical engineering and ASU Online electrical engineering are. The other 4 run on campus and online side by side.
5. One online degree needs 13 days in Grand Forks. North Dakota’s online mechanical engineering students ordinarily attend labs of 4, 4 and 5 campus days. Three electrical programs use take-home lab kits instead.
6. Online bachelor’s tuition runs $477 to $623.99 per credit where a rate is published. That is 4 programs. The 8 online master’s programs with a per-credit rate run $393 to $1,300, with a median of $876.53.
7. General engineering has 17 online master’s routes and electrical engineering has 12. You can compare them in the tables below.

Every Online Engineering Program in the Data

These tables list all 43 programs with an online route: 7 bachelor’s, 29 master’s and 7 doctoral. ABET status is shown only for bachelor’s programs, where it applies to the degree you need for licensure.

Online Bachelor’s Programs

Online Master’s and Doctoral Programs

A blank cell means the field does not apply to that row. The full dataset of all 585 programs is in the download below.

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Online Engineering Programs by Degree Level and Discipline

For context, here is how the online routes break down across the 585 programs reviewed: 29 of 141 master’s programs, 7 of 141 doctoral programs and 7 of 303 bachelor’s programs.

Do Online Engineering Degrees Require Labs on Campus?

Some do, and the details decide whether online study works for you. Each of the 7 programs handles labs differently, so read the lab rules before you apply.

• North Dakota, mechanical: ordinarily 4 campus days for Student Design, 4 for Manufacturing Processes Laboratory and 5 for Mechanical Measurements Laboratory. It is not a fully remote degree.
• North Dakota, electrical: labs use remote kits and require no campus visits. Online students can take chemistry and physics labs through North Dakota or seek approval for local equivalents.
• Mississippi State, electrical: you buy equipment and run experiments at home. Mississippi State does not teach 13 required credits online, so you transfer them in from elsewhere.
• Oregon State, electrical and computer: the online route uses lab kits, and upper-level courses roll out in stages: 300-level in 2026–27 and 400-level in 2027–28.
• Oregon State, mechanical: the online degree requires the Computational Engineering option. Other mechanical options on the Corvallis campus are not online choices.
• ASU Online, mechanical and electrical: both are fully online, with a two-semester senior design sequence.

How We Counted Online and ABET Engineering Programs

• Data: 585 program reviews on this site, pulled October 6, 2026. They cover general, mechanical and electrical engineering: 303 bachelor’s, 141 master’s and 141 doctoral programs. Source checks in the records run from September 5 to September 6, 2026.
• Scope: This is our review set, not every engineering program in the country. Civil, chemical and other disciplines are not included. Percentages describe this set only.
• Online route: a program counts when its recorded delivery format says online, distance or remote study. A program with “some online or blended coursework” on a campus degree, such as Northern Arizona, does not count. Two campus programs mention an online option in their review text without the online route being reviewed, so they are not counted.
• Fully online: the recorded format is online only, or online with a campus residency. Programs offered “on campus or online” are counted as online routes but not as fully online.
• ABET status: read from each bachelor’s program’s accreditation field, which cites the school’s own statement. ABET’s Engineering Accreditation Commission accredits bachelor’s and master’s engineering programs, so we report it for bachelor’s programs, where licensure depends on it. Programs with no accreditation statement in the record are not counted as accredited.
• Per-credit rates: only rates a school publishes for its online route, checked in each program’s tuition record. Totals multiply the rate by the credit count and exclude fees.
• External facts: the NCEES licensure statement and the ABET online-programs statement, both checked October 6, 2026.