If you plan on majoring in engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #7 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Kansas to determine which ones were the best for engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,471 degrees in engineering annually.
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 Engineering Schools in Kansas list to help you make the college decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Kansas State University is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in engineering. K -State is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Manhattan.
Students who receive their degree from the engineering program earn about $73,832 for their early career.
University of Kansas is a wonderful decision for students interested in a degree in engineering. KU is a very large public university located in the city of Lawrence.
Soon after graduating, engineering degree recipients typically earn about $64,896 at the beginning of their careers.
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).