2025 Best Engineering Technology Schools in Illinois
4Colleges in Illinois
155Engineering Technology Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in engineering technology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #203 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 4 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Engineering Technology Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 155 degrees in engineering technology annually.
The engineering technology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Engineering Technology rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for engineering technology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Engineering Technology Schools in Illinois list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Engineering Technology in Illinois
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 engineering technology degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is difficult to beat Northern Illinois University if you wish to pursue a degree in engineering technology. NIU is a large public university located in the suburb of Dekalb. This university ranks 20th out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were roughly 58 engineering technology students who graduated with this degree at NIU in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in engineering technology has to check out Illinois State University. Located in the midsize suburb of Normal, Illinois State is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #210 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Illinois State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 33 engineering technology students who graduated with this degree at Illinois State in the most recent year we have data available.
Western Illinois University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in engineering technology. WIU is a moderately-sized public university located in the remote town of Macomb. This university ranks 37th out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were about 19 engineering technology students who graduated with this degree at WIU in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in engineering technology needs to check out Morrison Institute of Technology. Morrison Institute of Technology is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the rural area of Morrison.
There were roughly 19 engineering technology students who graduated with this degree at Morrison Institute of Technology 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).
The engineering technology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Engineering Technology rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for engineering technology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
