2025 Best Manufacturing Engineering Schools in California
3Colleges in California
119Manufacturing Engineering Degrees Awarded
$79,644Avg Early-Career Salary
You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a degree in manufacturing engineering. It is ranked #243 out of 395 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for manufacturing engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 119 degrees in manufacturing engineering annually.
Your choice of manufacturing engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Manufacturing Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Manufacturing Engineering Rankings by Degree Level
The manufacturing 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 Manufacturing Engineering Schools in California.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Manufacturing Engineering in California
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the manufacturing engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top California Schools in Manufacturing Engineering
Every student who is interested in manufacturing engineering has to check out California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo. Located in the suburb of San Luis Obispo, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #165 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a great university overall.
There were approximately 23 manufacturing engineering students who graduated with this degree at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the most recent year we have data available.
California State Polytechnic University - Pomona is a great choice for students interested in a degree in manufacturing engineering. Cal Poly Pomona is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Pomona. This university ranks 60th out of 161 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 46 manufacturing engineering students who graduated with this degree at Cal Poly Pomona in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the manufacturing engineering program state that they receive average early career income of $79,549.
Any student who is interested in manufacturing engineering has to look into California State University - Northridge. Located in the city of Northridge, CSUN is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 48th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 24 manufacturing engineering students who graduated with this degree at CSUN 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).
Your choice of manufacturing engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Manufacturing Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
