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2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$23,356 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Manufacturing Engineering Graduate Certificate 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. 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 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in the Plains States Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate 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 Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region

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

Best Plains States Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Manufacturing Engineering

Our analysis found University of St Thomas Minnesota to be the best value school for manufacturing engineering students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Plains States Region . Located in the city of Saint Paul, UST MN is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UST MN are $23,736 per year.

UST MN did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Manufacturing Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Wichita State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value manufacturing engineering schools in the Plains States Region . Located in the city of Wichita, WSU is a public college with a large student population.

WSU graduate students pay an average of $15,323 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Missouri University of Science and Technology. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list. Missouri University of Science and Technology is a moderately-sized public school located in the remote town of Rolla.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Missouri University of Science and Technology are $31,008 a year.

Missouri University of Science and Technology excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Manufacturing Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list.

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Best Manufacturing Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best manufacturing engineering schools for a specific state in the Plains States region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 10
Minnesota 26
Kansas 4
Nebraska 0
North Dakota 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 3 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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