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2023 Most Popular Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Michigan

6 Colleges
$67,334 Avg Salary
$25,535 Avg Student Debt

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 assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Most Popular Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Michigan ranking. Our analysis looked at 6 schools in Michigan to see which programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Manufacturing Engineering program at each school on the list.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Manufacturing Engineering Colleges.

Our analysis found University of Michigan - Ann Arbor to be the most popular school for manufacturing engineering students who want to pursue a degree in Michigan. Located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor, U-M is a public school with a very large student population.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Dearborn. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Michigan list. Located in the city of Dearborn, UM Dearborn is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

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#3

Wayne State University

Detroit, MI

The excellent programs at Wayne State University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best manufacturing engineering schools in Michigan. Wayne State is a very large public school located in the city of Detroit.

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The excellent programs at Lawrence Technological University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best manufacturing engineering schools in Michigan. Lawrence Tech is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Southfield.

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A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Michigan Technological University is a great place for manufacturing engineering students. Michigan Tech is a medium-sized public school located in the remote town of Houghton.

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Out of the 6 schools in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the # 5 spot on the list. WMU is a fairly large public school located in the city of Kalamazoo.

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Best Manufacturing Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Most Popular 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 6 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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