Clarkson

• Clarkson University's roller coaster design course incorporates kinematics, engineering and math and teaches students about the forces that control a roller coaster. This course is for middle and high school students, and it is offered at the school's Potsdam, NY location. The class is part of the STEP Impetus program, which is a combination after-school and summer camp program. Students must work in teams to create a final project.
  
  

Purdue University

• This school is located in West Lafayette, Ind., and it offers a roller coaster dynamics course as part of the College of Engineering. This course teaches you about how roller coasters make loops and how kinetics get coasters up and down hills.
  
  

OSU

• The Ohio State University is located in Columbus, Ohio, and its College of Engineering offers a first-year engineering program to incoming freshmen. As part of this course, you learn nanotechnology and roller coaster engineering. You must take this course before you can declare an engineering major, and it teaches you how to document your work and how to work with other people. The school offers financial aid to students.
  
  

New River

• The New River Community College offers an instrumentation technology course, and this course focuses on computer automation, process control and how control systems operate. You learn in both a classroom and a laboratory, and one laboratory project involves learning about the gravitational forces and speed of roller coasters. This school is located in Dublin, Va., and has a transfer program if you wish to pursue a degree at a four-year college after you complete a two-year degree.
  
  

NCSU

• North Carolina State University is located in Raleigh, and it offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees. NCSU offers financial aid to students, including grants and work-study programs. The College of Engineering has a mechanical engineering/roller coaster course as part of its undergraduate Bachelor of science in mechanical engineering program. In this class, students work together to create a roller coaster, and they also learn about the engineering principles involved in creating these machines.
  
  

Empire State

• Empire State College is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, and this college is located in Saratoga Springs. It offers online courses, including the Science Math Analysis Reasoning Technology (SMART) program. This is a set of 15 online science and math courses for adults, and these are credit courses that you can use for other degrees, including a Bachelor of science degree. One of the courses is "Invention by Design," which uses engineering science to create and design projects, including roller coasters.