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2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$57,997 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$53,432 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Manufacturing Engineering School for You

In 2020-2021, 24 degrees and certificates were awarded to manufacturing engineering students who went to a Pennsylvania college or university. This makes it the #157 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

The Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania

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

Best Pennsylvania Schools for Affordable Quality in Manufacturing Engineering

#1

Lehigh University

Bethlehem, PA
$57,470 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Lehigh University the best value school in Pennsylvania for manufacturing engineering students. Lehigh is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Bethlehem.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Lehigh are $57,470 per year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Lehigh also is in the top 10% of our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania ranking.

Full Manufacturing Engineering at Lehigh University Report

#2

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA
$58,524 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in Pennsylvania 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 school with a large student population.

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

Carnegie Mellon also made our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania list, coming in at #1.

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Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
New York 14
New Jersey 3

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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