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2022 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k

3 Ranked Colleges
92 Degrees Awarded
$31,100 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools for a Master's in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Manufacturing Engineering is the 241st most popular major in the country with 966 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, manufacturing engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $62,383 and had an average of $25,760 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 134 manufacturing engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $32,467 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 92 manufacturing engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in manufacturing engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent manufacturing engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the manufacturing engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree manufacturing engineering students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Manufacturing Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region

#1

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Carolina State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, this large public school awarded 58 degrees to qualified masters’s manufacturing engineering students in 2019-2020.

NC State also made our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at NC State are $28,999, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Manufacturing Engineering at North Carolina State University

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Atlanta, Georgia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s manufacturing engineering degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region master’s degree manufacturing engineering students whose families make $30-$48k list, Georgia Tech has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus are $31,334, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#3

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kentucky. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Lexington, Kentucky is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s manufacturing engineering degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

UK did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Kentucky are $33,216, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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