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2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$50,245 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$78,207 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. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region 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 the Middle Atlantic Region

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

Best Middle Atlantic Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Manufacturing Engineering

#1

Lehigh University

Bethlehem, PA

Our 2023 rankings named Lehigh University the best value school in the Middle Atlantic Region for manufacturing engineering students. Lehigh is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Bethlehem.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Lehigh are $57,470 a year.

Lehigh also claimed a spot on our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.

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#2

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

Out of the 4 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Carnegie Mellon University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

Carnegie Mellon undergraduate students pay an average of $58,524 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Carnegie Mellon is ranked #2 for overall quality for manufacturing engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region .

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means New Jersey Institute of Technology is a great value for manufacturing engineering students. Located in the large city of Newark, NJIT is a public school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at NJIT are $34,034 a year.

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$50,951 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Rochester Institute of Technology helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best manufacturing engineering schools in the Middle Atlantic Region . RIT is a large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Rochester.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at RIT are $50,951 a year.

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Best Manufacturing Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best manufacturing engineering schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 14
Pennsylvania 24
New Jersey 3

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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 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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