2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Manufacturing Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 59 manufacturing engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,857 and $17,226 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 manufacturing engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in manufacturing engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful manufacturing engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Manufacturing Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

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Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado

#1 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado School of Mines. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s list. Located in Golden, Colorado, this medium-sized public school handed out 13 diplomas to qualified masters’s manufacturing engineering students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Manufacturing Engineering at Mines

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Brigham Young University - Provo
Provo, Utah

#3 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brigham Young University - Provo. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s list. Located in Provo, Utah, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 4 degrees to qualified masters’s manufacturing engineering students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%.

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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

• *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.