2025 Best Manufacturing Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
4Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
332Associate Degrees
Ranked #90 in popularity, manufacturing engineering technology is one of the most sought-after associate degree programs in the nation. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Manufacturing Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 332 associate degrees in manufacturing engineering technology during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Manufacturing Engineering Technology School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of manufacturing engineering technology for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on manufacturing engineering technology students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other manufacturing engineering technology students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized manufacturing engineering technology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for manufacturing engineering technology students working on their associate degree.
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 the Best Manufacturing Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Manufacturing Engineering Technology in the Great Lakes Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in manufacturing engineering technology.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for an Associate in Manufacturing Tech
One of 8 majors within the Industrial Production Technology area of study, Manufacturing Engineering Technology has other similar majors worth exploring.
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).