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2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$43,368 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$64,591 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Manufacturing Engineering School for You

In 2020-2021, 6 degrees and certificates were awarded to manufacturing engineering students who went to a Illinois college or university. This makes it the #198 most popular major in the state.

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 Illinois ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Illinois 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 Illinois

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

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality in Manufacturing Engineering

#1

Bradley University

Peoria, IL
$36,360 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Bradley University to be the best value school for manufacturing engineering students who want to pursue a degree in Illinois. Bradley is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Peoria.

Bradley undergraduate students pay an average of $36,360 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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

Full Manufacturing Engineering at Bradley University Report

$50,375 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Illinois Institute of Technology landed the # 2 spot on the list. Illinois Tech is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Illinois Tech are $50,375 a year.

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Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 31
Ohio 2
Wisconsin 26

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 2 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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