2025 Best Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology Schools in the Southwest Region
4Colleges in the Southwest Region
196ME Tech Degrees Awarded
A degree in mechanical engineering/mechanical technology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #201 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for mechanical engineering/mechanical technology students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 196 degrees in mechanical engineering/mechanical technology annually.
Choosing a Great Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology School
Your choice of mechanical engineering/mechanical technology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for mechanical engineering/mechanical 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.
Pick Your Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology in the Southwest Region
The schools below may not offer all types of me tech degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It is difficult to beat University of Houston if you want to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering/mechanical technology. Located in the city of Houston, UH is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 14th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were roughly 68 mechanical engineering/mechanical technology students who graduated with this degree at UH in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in mechanical engineering/mechanical technology has to look into Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. OSU is a very large public university located in the town of Stillwater. A Best Colleges rank of #366 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means OSU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 22 mechanical engineering/mechanical technology students who graduated with this degree at OSU in the most recent year we have data available.
University of North Texas is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in mechanical engineering/mechanical technology. Located in the medium-sized city of Denton, UNT is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #310 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UNT is a great university overall.
There were about 53 mechanical engineering/mechanical technology students who graduated with this degree at UNT in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Tarleton State University if you want to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering/mechanical technology. Tarleton is a large public university located in the remote town of Stephenville. This university ranks 48th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were roughly 14 mechanical engineering/mechanical technology students who graduated with this degree at Tarleton in the most recent data year.
Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology Related Rankings by Major
One of 5 majors within the Mechanical Engineering Technology area of study, Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical 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).
Your choice of mechanical engineering/mechanical technology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for mechanical engineering/mechanical technology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
