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Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Minnesota

2023 Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Minnesota

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$27,121 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,552 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Manufacturing Engineering School for You

With 53 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, manufacturing engineering is the #155 most popular major in Minnesota.

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.

The Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Minnesota ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in Minnesota to see which ones offered the best value programs for manufacturing engineering students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Best Minnesota Schools for Affordable Quality in Manufacturing Engineering

#1

Saint Cloud State University

Saint Cloud, MN
$9,170 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Saint Cloud State University to be the best value school for manufacturing engineering students who want to pursue a degree in Minnesota. Located in the small city of Saint Cloud, St. Cloud State University is a public school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at St. Cloud State University are $9,170 a year.

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$23,863 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Dunwoody College of Technology. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Minnesota list. Dunwoody College of Technology is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Minneapolis.

Dunwoody College of Technology undergraduate students pay an average of $23,863 in in-state tuition and fees each year. The average amount in student loans that manufacturing engineering majors at Dunwoody College of Technology take out is $35,134.

Dunwoody College of Technology excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Minnesota list.

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$48,329 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of St Thomas Minnesota is a great value for manufacturing engineering students. UST MN is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Saint Paul.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UST MN are $48,329 a year.

UST MN did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in Minnesota list.

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Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Manufacturing Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 10
Kansas 10
Nebraska 0
North Dakota 13

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 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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