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2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$40,838 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,857 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Manufacturing Engineering School for You

Out of all the majors we analyze each year, manufacturing engineering was ranked #187 in the country. In fact 423 degrees and certificates were handed out in 2020-2021.

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region 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. 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 the Rocky Mountains Region

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

Best Rocky Mountains Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Manufacturing Engineering

Our analysis found Brigham Young University - Provo to be the best value school for manufacturing engineering students who want to pursue a degree in the Rocky Mountains Region . Located in the midsize city of Provo, BYU is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at BYU are $6,120 a year.

BYU also took the #3 spot in our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region rankings.

Full Manufacturing Engineering at Brigham Young University - Provo Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado School of Mines. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in the suburb of Golden, Mines is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Mines are $40,838 a year.

Mines not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list.

Read full report on Manufacturing Engineering at Colorado School of Mines

Best Manufacturing Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best manufacturing engineering schools for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains region.

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 14
Utah 4

More Manufacturing Engineering Rankings in the Rocky Mountains Region

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 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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