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2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Michigan

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$20,972 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$67,334 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Manufacturing Engineering School for You

In 2020-2021, 31 degrees and certificates were awarded to manufacturing engineering students who went to a Michigan college or university. This makes it the #114 most popular major in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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.

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 Michigan ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in Michigan 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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Michigan

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

Best Michigan Schools for Affordable Quality in Manufacturing Engineering

$37,680 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Lawrence Technological University the best value school in Michigan for manufacturing engineering students. Lawrence Tech is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Southfield.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Lawrence Tech are $37,680 a year.

Lawrence Tech did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Michigan list.

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$13,816 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at University of Michigan - Dearborn helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best manufacturing engineering schools in Michigan. Located in the midsize city of Dearborn, UM Dearborn is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

UM Dearborn undergraduate students pay an average of $13,816 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Manufacturing Engineering at University of Michigan - Dearborn Report

$17,193 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Michigan list. Located in the city of Ann Arbor, U-M is a public college with a fairly large student population.

U-M undergraduate students pay an average of $17,193 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, U-M is ranked #1 for overall quality for manufacturing engineering in Michigan.

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#4

Wayne State University

Detroit, MI
$15,199 Average Tuition & Fees

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

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Wayne State are $15,199 per year.

Full Manufacturing Engineering at Wayne State University Report

Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Illinois 6
Ohio 2
Wisconsin 26

One of 39 majors within the area of study, manufacturing engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

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 4 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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