2024 Best Colleges for Manufacturing Engineering

SUMMARY

Majoring in Manufacturing Engineering is a valuable choice and commonly a requisite first step for scholars wishing to enter a career as a senior manufacturing engineer, a manufacturing design engineer, or a supplier quality engineer. Interestingly, manufacturing engineering is a very rare degree coming in at the 279th most popular major. In the last year, there were 506 manufacturing engineering diplomas received. In-state tuition for manufacturing engineering at private institutions is, on average, 2.8 times more expensive than their public fellows.

With just 35 colleges offering manufacturing engineering there could be limited options as to the institutions which will have a degree program for you. If you're looking to immerse yourself with other manufacturing engineering students, look at colleges in California which have the most students admitted to manufacturing engineering annually. Zooming out, the best region to major in manufacturing engineering is in the Great Lakes region with Northwestern University, Ferris State University, and University of Wisconsin-Stout best representing the region. Interestingly, our selection of the best conference to major in manufacturing engineering is the West Coast Conference with Brigham Young University-Provo representing the conference. From our list on the best colleges, our selection for the best college for manufacturing engineering is Northwestern University.

The best school does not have to be the best school for you. There might be tons more perspectives to consider when deciding on school. Stuff like campus amenities, transportation services, and food would impact your inclinations of where to go to school. At authority.org, we've evaluated the pros and cons for you. If, for example, you want to know which manufacturing engineering school has the top campus, the answer is California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. If, for example, you are mostly interested in which college boasts the top campus, then we have an entire page dedicated to that. We have carefully pored through government databases, professor reviews, student reviews, and more so we can evaluate every major in an unbiased and informative way. You can explore our comprehensive list for the universities with the best student life&nbsphere and, from that list, our pick for the college with the best student life for manufacturing engineering is California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. Curious why? Continue reading to learn more about Authority's top recommendations. Some of our decisions might surprise you.

If cost is a primary influence in your decisions, you might consider avoiding Northwestern University. Northwestern University&nbspis the most expensive college for manufacturing engineering, at least regarding out of state students. That being said, we have a list of the most expensive&nbspcolleges that might put the cost of Northwestern University&nbspinto perspective. Additionally, you could be interested to know that manufacturing engineering is the 370th most expensive major in the US, with an average cost of $17,600. On a broader scale, the most expensive state for manufacturing engineering on our list is Illinois with expenses at the primary two universities Bradley University and Northwestern University of $34,200 and $56,232 respectively. Even more broadly, the most costly region for manufacturing engineering is unfortunately unavailable due to missing data.

Our cheapest region for manufacturing engineering is the Rocky Mountains region which is represented by Brigham Young University-Provo with a cost of $5,790. On the bright side, the most affordable school for manufacturing engineering is Brigham Young University-Provo. Authority.org's full list of the most affordable colleges can be found here.

In-state attendees can expect to pay about $9,700 for a degree in manufacturing engineering. The cost increases intensely to a median of $20,800 for an out-of-state public-school student. As such, you might be interested in our selection for the university with the best value for manufacturing engineering: Northwestern University. Here you will find our comprehensive list about the schools we see as being the best value&nbspin general. Do know, this section is based on out-of-state tuition costs. A discussion of value changes when in-state tuition is considered, but we do not know where you live (and are not trying to collect that kind of data).

Earnings for manufacturing engineering majors vary a lot, but two-years after completing the major students will typically earn around $76,200. There is much variation in pay; highest paid earners can experience pay up to $114,500. Even right out of college, the minimum earning positions within the manufacturing engineering field earn $49,900, which could be worse. The top earning graduates for manufacturing engineering have come from Northwestern University&nbspand if you want to find the universities with all of the highest earning graduates, we have that too.

The overall diversity of manufacturing engineering sits below average, being in the 40th percentile of all programs. The college with the highest composite diversity for manufacturing engineering is National University&nbspand here you can find our general list of the colleges with the most diversity. The overall financial diversity of the Manufacturing Engineering major ranks only within the 73rd percentile of all majors. Racial diversity is even lower in the 59th percentile. White undergraduates make up the largest proportion, 59%, of students studying manufacturing engineering. Additionally, 87% of undergraduates pursuing a manufacturing engineering major are men.

The median ranking of manufacturing engineering professors is 4 stars, a ranking that is actually the median for all majors; which is a fine. If you want to find the most popular manufacturing engineering professor in the nation, look no further than Donald M. Davis from Brigham Young University-Provo. It may come as a shock, but the highest ranked professors for manufacturing engineering according to students are at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. If we including data beyond basic rankings we find that the university with comprehensively the best professors for manufacturing engineering is Northwestern University. One will find more detail on our ever evolving ranking methodology of the best overall professors here, as well as many of the top examples of professors in the U.S.

Finally, the hardest college to get into for manufacturing engineering is Northwestern University. While we think of this list more as a novelty, we do have a comprehensive page of the hardest colleges to get into. But, here at Authority we hope you believe that approaching the higher education world with a perspective primarily built on superlatives can create problems. We at Authority encourage you to look at some of our more focused pages on different colleges and read some of our background pages on important things to look for as you progress with your school search.