by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Manufacturing Engineering is the 243rd most popular major in the country with 947 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, manufacturing engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $70,583 and had an average of $26,962 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 217 manufacturing engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $68,710 and $26,967 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 147 manufacturing engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 12 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in manufacturing engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in manufacturing engineering.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree manufacturing engineering students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Central State University is located in Wilberforce, Ohio and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s manufacturing engineering degrees to qualified students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bradley University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Peoria, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s manufacturing engineering degrees to 19 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Out of the 12 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Stout landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Wisconsin - Stout is a medium-sized school located in Menomonie, Wisconsin that handed out 18 bachelors’s manufacturing engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 12 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ferris State University landed the #4 spot on the list. Ferris is a fairly large public school situated in Big Rapids, Michigan. It awarded 27 bachelors’s manufacturing engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Grand Valley State University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Allendale, Michigan, this large public school awarded 35 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s manufacturing engineering students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Northwestern University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in Evanston, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 25 degrees to qualified bachelors’s manufacturing engineering students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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University of Michigan - Dearborn ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Michigan - Dearborn is a public institution located in Dearborn, Michigan. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Manufacturing Engineering at University of Michigan - Dearborn
Miami University - Oxford landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in Oxford, Ohio, this fairly large public school awarded 8 degrees to qualified bachelors’s manufacturing engineering students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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With a ranking of #9, Youngstown State University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Youngstown State University is a fairly large school located in Youngstown, Ohio that handed out 2 bachelors’s manufacturing engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Youngstown State University Manufacturing Engineering Report
Western Michigan University landed the #10 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. This fairly large school is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s manufacturing engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking, coming in at #10. UWM is a large public school situated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It awarded 0 bachelors’s manufacturing engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
Full University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Manufacturing Engineering Report
University of Southern Indiana landed the #10 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. University of Southern Indiana is located in Evansville, Indiana and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s manufacturing engineering degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full University of Southern Indiana Manufacturing Engineering Report
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