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2023 Best Manufacturing Engineering Master's Degree Schools

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$91,720 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Manufacturing Engineering Master's Degree School for You

Manufacturing Engineering is the #244 most popular major in the country with 947 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Manufacturing Engineering Master's Degree Schools ranking. This report analyzed 32 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best master's degree programs for students. To come up with a school's ranking, we analyzed numerous factors related to post-graduation wages, the quality of education offered by the school, average accumulated student debt, and more.

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2023 Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the United States

The following schools top our list of the Best Manufacturing Engineering Master's Degree Colleges.

Top 10 Best Manufacturing Engineering Master's Degree Schools

#1

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

Our analysis found Carnegie Mellon University to be the best school for manufacturing engineering students who want to pursue a master’s degree in the United States. Carnegie Mellon is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Pittsburgh.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Rochester Institute of Technology. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools list. Located in the large suburb of Rochester, RIT is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means North Carolina State University is a great place for manufacturing engineering students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Raleigh, NC State is a public school with a very large student population.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools list. Located in the midsize city of Ann Arbor, U-M is a public college with a fairly large student population.

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Out of the 32 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus landed the # 5 spot on the list. Georgia Tech is a fairly large public school located in the city of Atlanta.

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University of California - Los Angeles did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for manufacturing engineering students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #6 on the list. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, UCLA is a public college with a fairly large student population.

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University of Southern California came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools ranking. USC is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Los Angeles.

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University of St Thomas Minnesota ranked #8 on this year’s Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools list. UST MN is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Saint Paul.

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#9

Bradley University

Peoria, IL

Bradley University ranked #9 on this year’s Best Manufacturing Engineering Master’s Degree Schools list. Located in the medium-sized city of Peoria, Bradley is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

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Colorado School of Mines landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best master’s degree manufacturing engineering programs. Located in the suburb of Golden, Mines is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

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Manufacturing Engineering by Region

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Southwest
Great Lakes

Manufacturing Engineering is one of 40 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Electrical Engineering 28,844
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 25 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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 the rest 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).

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