2025 Best Pre-Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region
3Colleges in the Southeast Region
531Pre-Engineering Degrees Awarded
Pre-Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #284 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for pre-engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 531 degrees in pre-engineering annually.
Your choice of pre-engineering 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 pre-engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each 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 the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Pre-Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Pre-Engineering in the Southeast Region
The schools below may not offer all types of pre-engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Wake Technical Community College is a good decision for students interested in a degree in pre-engineering. Wake Technical Community College is a very large public college located in the large suburb of Raleigh. A Best Colleges rank of #461 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Wake Technical Community College is a great college overall.
There were approximately 109 pre-engineering students who graduated with this degree at Wake Technical Community College in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat Chattanooga State Community College if you wish to pursue a degree in pre-engineering. Located in the midsize city of Chattanooga, Chattanooga State Community College is a public college with a medium-sized student population. This college ranks 14th out of 41 colleges for overall quality in the state of Tennessee.
There were roughly 15 pre-engineering students who graduated with this degree at Chattanooga State Community College in the most recent data year.
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in pre-engineering. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is a moderately-sized public college located in the rural area of Perkinston. This college ranks 10th out of 24 schools for overall quality in the state of Mississippi.
There were roughly 107 pre-engineering students who graduated with this degree at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in the most recent data year.
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 pre-engineering 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 pre-engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
