2023 Best Manufacturing Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region

Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Manufacturing Engineering for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that 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 Southwest region, there were 150 manufacturing engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,187 and $25,278 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 52 manufacturing engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Manufacturing Engineering for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 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 offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the manufacturing engineering program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Manufacturing Engineering for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree vets studying manufacturing engineering.

Top 2 Best Manufacturing Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region

1

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Edinburg, Texas

871 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Manufacturing Engineering for a Bachelor’s list. UT Rio Grande Valley is located in Edinburg, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 22 bachelors’s manufacturing engineering degrees to qualified students.

UT Rio Grande Valley did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.Among the 32,441 students enrolled at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 871 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 302 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $4,560. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

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

[Read full report on veteran student life at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley]](/colleges/the-university-of-texas-pan-american/student-life/veterans/)

2

Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

2,559 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

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 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Manufacturing Engineering for a Bachelor’s. Texas State University is a public institution located in San Marcos, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 26 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree vets studying manufacturing engineering list, Texas State has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 2,559 of the 37,812 students enrolled at Texas State University were GI Bill® students, of which 1,197 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $7,635. On top of their other funding sources, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Texas State University]](/colleges/texas-state-university-san-marcos/student-life/veterans/)

• Best Manufacturing Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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).
• Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
• 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.
• **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
• 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.