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2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Far Western US Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Colleges
$37,397 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$71,581 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Manufacturing Engineering School for You

Manufacturing Engineering is the #187 most popular major in the country with 423 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in the Far Western US Region 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.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Colleges.

Best Far Western US Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Manufacturing Engineering

#1

San Diego State University

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

Our 2023 rankings named San Diego State University the best value school in the Far Western US Region for manufacturing engineering students. Located in the city of San Diego, SDSU is a public college with a very large student population.

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

Read full report on Manufacturing Engineering at San Diego State University

The excellent programs at University of California - Los Angeles helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best manufacturing engineering schools in the Far Western US Region . UCLA is a very large public school located in the large city of Los Angeles.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UCLA are $43,012 a year.

UCLA also claimed a spot on our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Far Western US Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.

Read full report on Manufacturing Engineering at University of California - Los Angeles

$43,529 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at University of California - Irvine helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best manufacturing engineering schools in the Far Western US Region . UC Irvine is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Irvine.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UC Irvine are $43,529 per year.

Full Manufacturing Engineering at University of California - Irvine Report

$18,923 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at California State University - Northridge helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best manufacturing engineering schools in the Far Western US Region . Located in the city of Northridge, CSUN is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at CSUN are $18,923 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern California. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Far Western US Region list. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

USC undergraduate students pay an average of $61,503 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, USC is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Far Western US Region list.

Full Manufacturing Engineering at University of Southern California Report

Best Manufacturing Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best manufacturing engineering colleges for a specific state in the Far Western US region.

State Degrees Awarded
California 26
Washington 0
Oregon 0

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

Majors Similar to Manufacturing Engineering

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 5 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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