2024 Best General Engineering Schools in Wisconsin
3Colleges in Wisconsin
184Engineering Degrees Awarded
$91,459Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in general engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #79 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Wisconsin to determine which ones were the best for general engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 184 degrees in general engineering during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Your choice of general engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall General Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Engineering Schools in Wisconsin ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
The schools below may not offer all types of engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Wisconsin - Madison is a good option for students interested in a degree in general engineering. UW - Madison is a very large public university located in the large city of Madison. A Best Colleges rank of #30 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UW - Madison is a great university overall.
There were approximately 78 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at UW - Madison in the most recent data year. General Engineering degree recipients from University of Wisconsin - Madison receive an earnings boost of around $18,879 above the typical earnings of general engineering majors.
University of Wisconsin - Platteville is a wonderful option for students pursuing a degree in general engineering. Located in the town of Platteville, UW - Platteville is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 17th out of 46 colleges for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were approximately 37 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at UW - Platteville in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the general engineering program at University of Wisconsin - Platteville get $4,126 more than the typical college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
Any student who is interested in general engineering needs to look into University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. UWM is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Milwaukee. This university ranks 19th out of 46 colleges for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were approximately 54 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at UWM in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the engineering program earn an average of $68,454 in their early career salary.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
Credit for the banner image above goes to Rémi Kaupp.
Your choice of general engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall General Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
