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

5 Ranked Colleges
71 Degrees Awarded
$34,200 Avg Cost*
Most Well Attended Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Master's

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” 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 Southeast region, there were 129 manufacturing engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,571 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 71 manufacturing engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in manufacturing engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in manufacturing engineering.

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

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

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North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina

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 Most Well Attended Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s. Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, this large public school awarded 38 degrees to qualified masters’s manufacturing engineering students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Savannah College of Art and Design. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s. This fairly large school is located in Savannah, Georgia, and it awarded 16 masters’s manufacturing engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Manufacturing Engineering at Savannah College of Art and Design

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s list. Georgia Tech is a large school located in Atlanta, Georgia that handed out 13 masters’s manufacturing engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

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 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Manufacturing Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus

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University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s list. This large school is located in Lexington, Kentucky, and it awarded 4 masters’s manufacturing engineering degrees 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 4.3% 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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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Alabama. The school came in at #5 for the Most Well Attended Manufacturing Engineering Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s. University of North Alabama is a medium-sized school located in Florence, Alabama that handed out 0 masters’s manufacturing engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

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