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2022 Best Value Manufacturing Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k

6 Ranked Colleges
90 Degrees Awarded
$26,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Manufacturing Tech Schools for a Master's For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Manufacturing Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 5,052 people earned their degree in manufacturing engineering technology, making the major the 258th most popular in the United States.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 90 manufacturing engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Manufacturing Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in manufacturing engineering technology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality manufacturing engineering technology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the manufacturing engineering technology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The manufacturing tech school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Manufacturing Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k”.

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Best Value Manufacturing Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Manufacturing Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 6 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Manufacturing Engineering Technology (Income $0-$30k)

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Minnesota State University - Mankato. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Manufacturing Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k. Minnesota State Mankato is a public institution located in Mankato, Minnesota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Minnesota State Mankato also made our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at Minnesota State Mankato are $8,788, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Manufacturing Engineering Technology at Minnesota State Mankato

#2

Oregon Institute of Technology

Klamath Falls, Oregon
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oregon Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Manufacturing Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k list. Klamath Falls, Oregon is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s manufacturing tech degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

OIT also took the #4 spot in our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at OIT are $23,379.

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#3 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Manufacturing Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #3 spot on the list. SIUC is a public institution located in Carbondale, Illinois. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 15 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

SIUC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Schools” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are $32,928.

Read more about Manufacturing Engineering Technology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

#4

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Michigan University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Manufacturing Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, this fairly large public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s manufacturing tech students in 2019-2020.

WMU also took the #0 spot in our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at WMU are $31,355.

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#5

Western Illinois University

Macomb, Illinois
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Illinois University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Manufacturing Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k. WIU is located in Macomb, Illinois and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 12 masters’s manufacturing tech degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our master’s degree manufacturing tech students whose families make $0-$30k list, WIU has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Western Illinois University are $11,996.

Read more about Manufacturing Engineering Technology at Western Illinois University

#1 in overall quality

Rochester Institute of Technology came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Manufacturing Tech Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $0-$30k ranking. This fairly large school is located in Rochester, New York, and it awarded 32 masters’s manufacturing tech degrees in 2019-2020.

RIT not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Manufacturing Engineering Technology Master’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at RIT are $50,442, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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