2025 Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Schools in Missouri
3Colleges in Missouri
132Design Engineering Tech Degrees Awarded
$44,238Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in drafting & design engineering technology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #151 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Missouri to determine which ones were the best for drafting & design engineering technology students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 132 degrees in drafting & design engineering technology to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Drafting & Design Engineering Technology School
Your choice of drafting & design engineering technology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Drafting & Design Engineering Technology 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.
Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Rankings by Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Schools in Missouri ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Drafting & Design Engineering Technology in Missouri
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the design engineering tech degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's difficult to beat State Technical College of Missouri if you want to pursue a degree in drafting & design engineering technology. STC is a small public college located in the rural area of Linn. A Best Colleges rank of #484 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means STC is a great college overall.
There were approximately 35 drafting & design engineering technology students who graduated with this degree at STC in the most recent data year.
University of Central Missouri is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in drafting & design engineering technology. Located in the town of Warrensburg, UCM is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 21st out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 18 drafting & design engineering technology students who graduated with this degree at UCM in the most recent year we have data available. Those drafting & design engineering technology students who get their degree from University of Central Missouri make $16,536 more than the standard design engineering tech grad.
Ozarks Technical Community College is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in drafting & design engineering technology. Located in the city of Springfield, OTC is a public college with a fairly large student population. This college ranks 32nd out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were about 22 drafting & design engineering technology students who graduated with this degree at OTC in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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Your choice of drafting & design engineering technology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Drafting & Design Engineering Technology School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
