2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Manufacturing Engineering Technology in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 4,812 people earned their degree in manufacturing engineering technology, making the major the 271st most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 330 manufacturing engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 141 manufacturing engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in manufacturing engineering technology. That schools that top this list have a program in manufacturing engineering technology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Tech Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Tech Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Manufacturing Engineering Technology in the Southwest Region

1

Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Weatherford, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwestern Oklahoma State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Tech Major in the Southwest Region. This small school is located in Weatherford, Oklahoma, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s manufacturing tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Manufacturing Engineering Technology at SWOSU

2

Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, Texas

#7 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Tech Major in the Southwest Region. Texas A&M College Station is a large school located in College Station, Texas that handed out 124 bachelors’s manufacturing tech degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

Read more about Manufacturing Engineering Technology at Texas A&M College Station

3

Tarleton State University
Stephenville, Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Tech Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Tarleton State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Stephenville, Texas, this fairly large public school awarded 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s manufacturing tech students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Manufacturing Engineering Technology at Tarleton State University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Manufacturing Engineering Technology

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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