2025 Best Automotive Engineering Technology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Automotive Engineering Technology is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #454 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Automotive Engineering Technology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 118 bachelor's degrees in automotive engineering technology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on automotive engineering technology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of automotive engineering technology students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized automotive engineering technology related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for automotive engineering technology students working on their bachelor's degree.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Automotive Engineering Technology Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Automotive Engineering Technology in the Great Lakes Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in automotive engineering technology.

Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Automotive Engineering Tech

1

Ferris State University
Big Rapids, MI

Basic Certificate Highest Degree Type

23 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in automotive engineering technology has to check out Ferris State University. Ferris is a moderately-sized public university located in the remote town of Big Rapids.More information about a bachelor’s in automotive engineering technology from Ferris State University

2

Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, IL

89 Annual Graduates

Southern Illinois University Carbondale is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in automotive engineering technology. Located in the distant town of Carbondale, SIUC is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in automotive engineering technology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Best Automotive Engineering Technology Colleges by State

Explore the best automotive engineering technology colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	629	22
Illinois	558	92
Indiana	535	5

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Rankings in Majors Related to Automotive Engineering Tech

One of 5 majors within the Mechanical Engineering Technology area of study, Automotive Engineering Technology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Automotive Engineering Tech

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology	682
Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering Technology	114
Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies, Other	20

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.