2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Tech Major in the Southwest Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 4,587 people earned their degree in manufacturing engineering technology, making the major the 271st most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 384 manufacturing engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 160 manufacturing engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Tech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in manufacturing engineering technology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in manufacturing engineering technology.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Tech Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree manufacturing tech students.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Manufacturing Engineering Technology in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southwestern Oklahoma State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Tech Major in the Southwest Region list. Southwestern Oklahoma State University is a public institution located in Weatherford, Oklahoma. The school has a small population, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full SWOSU Manufacturing Engineering Technology Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - College Station. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Tech Major in the Southwest Region list. Texas A&M University - College Station is a large public school situated in College Station, Texas. It awarded 149 bachelors’s manufacturing tech degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Manufacturing Engineering Technology at Texas A&M University - College Station
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Manufacturing Tech Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Tarleton State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Stephenville, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s manufacturing tech degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Tarleton State University Manufacturing Engineering Technology Report
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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