If you plan on majoring in engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #7 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Kansas to determine which ones were the best for engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,471 degrees in engineering during the 2021-2022 academic year.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Engineering Schools in Kansas list to help you make the college decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Kansas is a good decision for students interested in a degree in engineering. KU is a very large public university located in the small city of Lawrence.
Degree recipients from the engineering major at University of Kansas get $2,049 more than the standard graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
Kansas State University is a wonderful option for students interested in a degree in engineering. K -State is a fairly large public university located in the city of Manhattan.
Degree recipients from the engineering major at Kansas State University earn $3,599 more than the typical graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).