Manufacturing Engineering at Wichita State University

What traits are you looking for in a manufacturing engineering school? To help you decide if Wichita State University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's manufacturing engineering program.

WSU is located in Wichita, Kansas and approximately 14,999 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Manufacturing Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

WSU Manufacturing Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Manufacturing Engineering

WSU Manufacturing Engineering Rankings

The manufacturing engineering major at WSU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Manufacturing Engineering. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Manufacturing Engineering Student Demographics at WSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the manufacturing engineering majors at Wichita State University.

WSU Manufacturing Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 63% of manufacturing engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 38% went to women. The typical manufacturing engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 21% women. So female students are more repesented at WSU since its program graduates 16% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% more racial-ethnic minorities in its manufacturing engineering bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Wichita State University with a bachelor's in manufacturing engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	4
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Manufacturing Engineering

If you plan to be a manufacturing engineering major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Wichita State University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Manufacturing Engineering	10

Related Majors

• Systems Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Biomedical Engineering
• Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering

Careers That Manufacturing Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in manufacturing engineering can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for KS, the home state for Wichita State University.

Occupation	Jobs in KS	Average Salary in KS
Industrial Engineers	2,920	$79,580
Cost Estimators	1,940	$66,500
Architectural and Engineering Managers	1,520	$129,220
Engineers	600	$82,060
Engineering Professors	310	$107,820

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Hrududu under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.