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2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Colleges
$20,743 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$73,300 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Manufacturing Engineering School for You

With 26 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, manufacturing engineering is the #187 most popular major in California.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 in California ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 5 schools in California to see which ones offered the best value programs for manufacturing engineering students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 California

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

Best California Schools for Affordable Quality in Manufacturing Engineering

$13,258 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of California - Los Angeles to be the best value school for manufacturing engineering students who want to pursue a degree in California. UCLA is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Los Angeles.

UCLA undergraduate students pay an average of $13,258 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, UCLA is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in California list.

Full Manufacturing Engineering at University of California - Los Angeles Report

#2

San Diego State University

San Diego, CA
$8,136 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at San Diego State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best manufacturing engineering schools in California. Located in the city of San Diego, SDSU is a public college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at SDSU are $8,136 per year.

Full Manufacturing Engineering at San Diego State University Report

$7,043 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at California State University - Northridge helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best manufacturing engineering schools in California. Located in the city of Northridge, CSUN is a public school with a fairly large student population.

CSUN undergraduate students pay an average of $7,043 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Manufacturing Engineering at California State University - Northridge Report

$13,775 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of California - Irvine. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in California list. UC Irvine is a very large public school located in the large city of Irvine.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UC Irvine are $13,775 per year.

Full Manufacturing Engineering at University of California - Irvine Report

$61,503 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 5 schools in California that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern California landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at USC are $61,503 per year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, USC also did well on our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in California list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Full Manufacturing Engineering at University of Southern California Report

Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Colleges in the Far Western US Region

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State Degrees Awarded
Washington 0
Oregon 0

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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