2025 Best Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

35 Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

4,189 Associate Degrees

an associate degree in engineering technologies is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #8 out of 38 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

College Factual looked at 35 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 4,189 associate degrees in engineering technologies during the 2021-2022 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Engineering Technologies School for Your Associate Degree

Best Engineering Technologies Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region Your choice of engineering technologies for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality engineering tech program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of associate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their associate degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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 engineering technologies students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other engineering technologies students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
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.
Student Debt - How much debt engineering technologies students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized engineering technologies related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for engineering technologies students working on their associate degree.

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