2025 Best General Engineering Schools in Wisconsin
4Colleges in Wisconsin
184Engineering Degrees Awarded
$77,930Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in general engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #79 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Wisconsin to determine which ones were the best for general engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 184 degrees in general engineering annually.
Your choice of general engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall General Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Engineering Schools in Wisconsin ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Wisconsin - Madison is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in general engineering. UW - Madison is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Madison. A Best Colleges rank of #40 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UW - Madison is a great university overall.
There were roughly 78 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at UW - Madison in the most recent year we have data available. General Engineering degree recipients from University of Wisconsin - Madison get an earnings boost of around $34,925 over the typical income of general engineering graduates.
Milwaukee School of Engineering is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in general engineering. MSOE is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Milwaukee. This school ranks 33rd out of 46 colleges for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were roughly 8 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at MSOE in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Wisconsin - Platteville is a good option for students interested in a degree in general engineering. Located in the town of Platteville, UW - Platteville is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #623 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UW - Platteville is a great university overall.
There were about 37 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at UW - Platteville in the most recent year we have data available. General Engineering degree recipients from University of Wisconsin - Platteville get an earnings boost of about $18,837 above the average income of general engineering graduates.
Every student pursuing a degree in general engineering needs to check out University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. UWM is a very large public university located in the city of Milwaukee. This university ranks 23rd out of 46 schools for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were approximately 54 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at UWM in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the general engineering major at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee get $16,065 more than the typical college grad in this field shortly after graduation.
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).
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Your choice of general engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall General Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
