2025 Best Pre-Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
466Pre-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.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Pre-Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 466 degrees in pre-engineering to qualified students.
The pre-engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Pre-Engineering rankings. 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.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The pre-engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Pre-Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region.
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Best Schools for Pre-Engineering in the Southwest 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.
Tulsa Community College is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in pre-engineering. Tulsa Community College is a large public college located in the city of Tulsa. This college ranks 6th out of 31 schools for overall quality in the state of Oklahoma.
There were roughly 86 pre-engineering students who graduated with this degree at Tulsa Community College in the most recent data year.
Central New Mexico Community College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in pre-engineering. Located in the large city of Albuquerque, CNM is a public college with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #631 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means CNM is a great college overall.
There were roughly 42 pre-engineering students who graduated with this degree at CNM in the most recent year we have data available.
Oklahoma City Community College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in pre-engineering. Located in the large city of Oklahoma City, OCCC is a public college with a large student population. This college ranks 4th out of 31 schools for overall quality in the state of Oklahoma.
There were roughly 40 pre-engineering students who graduated with this degree at OCCC 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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The pre-engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Pre-Engineering rankings. 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.
