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2022 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

6 Ranked Colleges
124 Degrees Awarded
$15,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 966 people earned their degree in manufacturing engineering, making the major the 241st most popular in the United States. 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 Southwest region, there were 124 manufacturing engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,700 and $25,325 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region manufacturing engineering students with aid.

Top 6 Best Value Colleges for Manufacturing Engineering in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is a large public school situated in Edinburg, Texas. It awarded 21 ’s manufacturing engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region manufacturing engineering students with aid list, UT Rio Grande Valley has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is $4,514 for southwest region manufacturing engineering students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Manufacturing Engineering at UT Rio Grande Valley

#2

Texas State University

San Marcos, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in San Marcos, Texas, this large public school handed out 37 degrees to qualified ’s manufacturing engineering students in 2019-2020.

Texas State also took the #2 spot in our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Texas State University is $15,230 for southwest region manufacturing engineering students with aid.

Full Texas State Manufacturing Engineering Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 25 ’s manufacturing engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

ASU - Tempe did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Arizona State University - Tempe is $11,706 for Southwest Region Manufacturing Engineering students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Manufacturing Engineering at ASU - Tempe

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at El Paso. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. UTEP is a large public school situated in El Paso, Texas. It awarded 4 ’s manufacturing engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UTEP, the school also landed the #6 spot in our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $8,920 for southwest region manufacturing engineering students with aid per year to attend The University of Texas at El Paso.

Read full report on Manufacturing Engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at San Antonio. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. UTSA is a large school located in San Antonio, Texas that handed out 5 ’s manufacturing engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UTSA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $13,853 for southwest region manufacturing engineering students with aid per year to attend The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Read more about Manufacturing Engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio

Southern Methodist University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid ranking. SMU is a fairly large school located in Dallas, Texas that handed out 32 ’s manufacturing engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at SMU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $36,222 for Southwest Region Manufacturing Engineering students with aid per year to attend Southern Methodist University.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Manufacturing Engineering at SMU

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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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