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2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$52,180 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$95,914 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Manufacturing Engineering School for You

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

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the New England Region to see which programs offered the best value experiences for manufacturing engineering students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Colleges.

Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Manufacturing Engineering

Our 2023 rankings named Worcester Polytechnic Institute the best value school in the New England Region for manufacturing engineering students. Located in the city of Worcester, WPI is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at WPI are $55,531 per year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, WPI also is in the top 15% of our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the New England Region ranking.

Full Manufacturing Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Report

$41,192 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Connecticut is a great value for manufacturing engineering students. UCONN is a very large public school located in the suburb of Storrs.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UCONN are $41,192 a year.

Full Manufacturing Engineering at University of Connecticut Report

#3

Boston University

Boston, MA

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Boston University is a great value for manufacturing engineering students. Boston U is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Boston.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Boston U are $59,816 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Boston U also did well on our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in the New England Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Read full report on Manufacturing Engineering at Boston University

Best Manufacturing Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best manufacturing engineering colleges for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 35
Connecticut 4

One of 40 majors within the area of study, manufacturing engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Manufacturing Engineering

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 3 schools only.

  • 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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