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2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Plains States Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$32,531 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$64,120 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. 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 the Plains States Region ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in the Plains States 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 Plains States Region

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

Best Plains States Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Manufacturing Engineering

Our 2023 rankings named University of St Thomas Minnesota the best value school in the Plains States Region for manufacturing engineering students. Located in the city of Saint Paul, UST MN is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

UST MN undergraduate students pay an average of $48,329 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, UST MN is ranked #2 for overall quality for manufacturing engineering in the Plains States Region .

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$18,165 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wichita State University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Wichita, WSU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

WSU undergraduate students pay an average of $18,165 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Manufacturing Engineering at Wichita State University

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Missouri University of Science and Technology. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Plains States Region list. Missouri University of Science and Technology is a medium-sized public school located in the remote town of Rolla.

Missouri University of Science and Technology undergraduate students pay an average of $31,099 in tuition and fees each year.

Missouri University of Science and Technology also claimed a spot on our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Plains States Region list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools in this category.

Full Manufacturing Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology Report

Best Manufacturing Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best manufacturing engineering schools for a specific state in the Plains States region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 10
Minnesota 26
Kansas 4
Nebraska 0
North Dakota 0

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 3 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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