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2023 Most Popular Drafting & Design Engineering Schools

9 Colleges
$43,263 Avg Salary
$17,275 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology School for You

Drafting & Design Engineering Technology is the #246 most popular major in the country with 145 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Most Popular Drafting & Design Engineering Schools ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 9 schools in the United States to see which programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Drafting & Design Engineering Technology program at each school on the list.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Colleges.

#1

Academy of Art University

San Francisco, CA

Our analysis found Academy of Art University to be the most popular school for drafting and design engineering technology students who want to pursue a degree in the United States. Academy of Art University is a medium-sized private for-profit school located in the city of San Francisco.

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#2

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

The excellent programs at Carnegie Mellon University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best drafting and design engineering technology schools in the United States. Carnegie Mellon is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Pittsburgh.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Oklahoma Norman Campus is a great place for drafting and design engineering technology students. University of Oklahoma is a very large public school located in the medium-sized suburb of Norman.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Eastern Michigan University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Most Popular Drafting & Design Engineering Schools list. Eastern Michigan is a large public school located in the suburb of Ypsilanti.

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#5

Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Drexel University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Most Popular Drafting & Design Engineering Schools list. Drexel is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Philadelphia.

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Black Hills State University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for drafting and design engineering technology students. It came in at #6 on the list. BHSU is a small public school located in the distant town of Spearfish.

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#6

Woodbury University

Burbank, CA

With a ranking of #6, Woodbury University did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for drafting and design engineering technology students. Located in the city of Burbank, Woodbury is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

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#6

SUNY New Paltz

New Paltz, NY

SUNY New Paltz did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for drafting and design engineering technology students. It came in at #6 on the list. SUNY New Paltz is a medium-sized public school located in the suburb of New Paltz.

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Lawrence Technological University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Drafting & Design Engineering Schools ranking. Lawrence Tech is a small private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Southfield.

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Drafting & Design Engineering Technology by Region

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New England
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Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

Drafting & Design Engineering Technology is one of 16 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Engineering-Related Fields 4,838
Quality Control Technology 736
Industrial Production Technology 440
Engineering Technology (Other) 288
Construction Engineering Technology 264

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 9 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Pixabay.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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