2025 Best Manufacturing Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in California

When it comes to popularity, a bachelor's degree in manufacturing engineering sits in the middle of the road, ranking #203 out of 363 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for manufacturing engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 71 bachelor's degrees in manufacturing engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to manufacturing engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of manufacturing engineering students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• 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 easy is it for manufacturing engineering to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized manufacturing engineering related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for manufacturing engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Manufacturing Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in California list to help you make the college decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Manufacturing Engineering in California

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for manufacturing engineering students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top California Schools for a Bachelor's in Manufacturing Engineering

1

California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA

17 Annual Graduates

California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo is a good choice for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in manufacturing engineering. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a very large public university located in the small suburb of San Luis Obispo.More information about a bachelor’s in manufacturing engineering from California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

2

California State Polytechnic University - Pomona
Pomona, CA

36 Annual Graduates

$79,549 Median Starting Salary

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in manufacturing engineering needs to look into California State Polytechnic University - Pomona. Located in the suburb of Pomona, Cal Poly Pomona is a public university with a very large student population.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the manufacturing engineering program earn around $79,549 in the first couple years of their career.

More information about a bachelor’s in manufacturing engineering from California State Polytechnic University - Pomona

Best Manufacturing Engineering Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Manufacturing Engineering Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Washington	226	29
Oregon	185	65

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Rankings in Majors Related to Manufacturing Engineering

Manufacturing Engineering is one of 41 different types of Engineering programs to choose from.

Manufacturing Engineering Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Manufacturing Engineering	71

Majors Similar to Manufacturing Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	3,722
Electrical Engineering	2,314
Computer Engineering	2,214
Civil Engineering	2,049
Biomedical Engineering	998
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	899
Chemical Engineering	764
Industrial Engineering	277
Environmental Engineering	234
Other Engineering	178

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.