2025 Best Systems Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
3Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
219Systems Engineering Degrees Awarded
$102,528Avg Early-Career Salary
When it comes to popularity, systems engineering sits in the middle of the road, ranking #160 out of 395 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Systems Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 219 degrees in systems engineering to qualified students.
Your choice of systems engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Systems 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.
The systems 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 Systems Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
Best Schools for Systems Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region
The schools below may not offer all types of systems engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools in Systems Engineering
Colorado School of Mines is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in systems engineering. Located in the suburb of Golden, Mines is a public school with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #87 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Mines is a great school overall.
There were approximately 55 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at Mines in the most recent data year.
Colorado State University - Fort Collins is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in systems engineering. Colorado State is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Fort Collins. This university ranks 4th out of 31 schools for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were approximately 43 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at Colorado State in the most recent data year.
University of Denver is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in systems engineering. Located in the large city of Denver, DU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 31 colleges for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were roughly 51 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at DU 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).
Credit for the banner image above goes to luis gomes.
Your choice of systems engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Systems Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
