2025 Best Manufacturing Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Texas

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.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Manufacturing Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Texas ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 60 bachelor's degrees in manufacturing engineering to qualified students.

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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

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on manufacturing engineering students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other manufacturing engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt manufacturing engineering students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized manufacturing engineering related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Manufacturing Engineering Schools

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 Texas list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

Top Texas Schools for a Bachelor's in Manufacturing Engineering

1

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Edinburg, TX

21 Annual Graduates

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is a great choice for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in manufacturing engineering. Located in the midsize city of Edinburg, UT Rio Grande Valley is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in manufacturing engineering from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

2

Texas State University
San Marcos, TX

39 Annual Graduates

$68,886 Median Starting Salary

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in manufacturing engineering has to check out Texas State University. Located in the city of San Marcos, Texas State is a public university with a very large student population.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the manufacturing engineering program make an average of $68,886 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in manufacturing engineering from Texas State University

Best Manufacturing Engineering Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Arizona	200	4
New Mexico	133	0

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Manufacturing Engineering Related Rankings by Major

One of 41 majors within the Engineering area of study, Manufacturing Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Manufacturing Engineering Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Manufacturing Engineering	60

Majors Similar to Manufacturing Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	2,777
Electrical Engineering	1,512
Civil Engineering	1,182
Computer Engineering	754
Chemical Engineering	745
Biomedical Engineering	649
Industrial Engineering	490
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	330
Petroleum Engineering	227
General Engineering	155

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.