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2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

36 Colleges
$34,380 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$70,583 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Manufacturing Engineering School for You

In 2020-2021, 423 people earned a degree or certificate in manufacturing engineering, making the major the #187 most popular in the United States.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Manufacturing 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 36 schools in the United States to see which programs offered the best value experiences for manufacturing engineering students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the United States

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for manufacturing engineering majors pursuing a .

Top 10 Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Brigham Young University - Provo the best value school in the United States for manufacturing engineering students. BYU is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Provo.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at BYU are $6,120 a year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, BYU also is in the top 20% of our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools ranking.

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The excellent programs at Lawrence Technological University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best manufacturing engineering schools in the United States. Located in the city of Southfield, Lawrence Tech is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Lawrence Tech are $37,680 per year.

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#3

Bradley University

Peoria, IL

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Bradley University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools list. Bradley is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Peoria.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Bradley are $36,360 a year.

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The excellent programs at University of St Thomas Minnesota helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best manufacturing engineering schools in the United States. Located in the city of Saint Paul, UST MN is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

UST MN undergraduate students pay an average of $48,329 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, UST MN also did well on our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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Out of the 36 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Stout landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the distant town of Menomonie, UW - Stout is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UW - Stout are $17,820 a year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, UW - Stout also is in the top 20% of our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools ranking.

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#6

San Diego State University

San Diego, CA
$20,016 Average Tuition & Fees

San Diego State University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools ranking. Located in the city of San Diego, SDSU is a public school with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at SDSU are $20,016 per year.

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$18,165 Average Tuition & Fees

Wichita State University landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value manufacturing engineering programs. Located in the large city of Wichita, WSU is a public college with a fairly large student population.

WSU undergraduate students pay an average of $18,165 in tuition and fees each year.

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Citadel Military College of South Carolina ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools list. Located in the medium-sized city of Charleston, The Citadel is a public school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at The Citadel are $35,826 a year.

In addition to its great value ranking, The Citadel is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools list.

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University of California - Los Angeles did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value schools for manufacturing engineering students. It came in at #9 on the list. UCLA is a fairly large public school located in the city of Los Angeles.

UCLA undergraduate students pay an average of $43,012 in tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, UCLA also is in the top 5% of our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools ranking.

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North Carolina State University ranked #10 on this year’s Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools list. NC State is a very large public school located in the city of Raleigh.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at NC State are $29,916 a year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, NC State also is in the top 10% of our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools ranking.

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Manufacturing Engineering by Region

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

Manufacturing Engineering is one of 39 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 26 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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