2024 Best Systems Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Systems Engineering isn't the most popular bachelor's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #179 in popularity out of 363 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for systems engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 92 bachelor's degrees in systems engineering to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

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

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on systems engineering students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of systems 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 systems 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 systems engineering related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Systems Engineering Schools

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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region.

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 Bachelor’s Students to Study Systems Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in systems engineering.

Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Systems Engineering

1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

72 Annual Graduates

$61,753 Median Starting Salary

$17,800 Median Student Debt

It's difficult to beat University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in systems engineering. UIUC is a very large public university located in the small city of Champaign.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the systems engineering program earn around $61,753 for their early career.

More information about a bachelor’s in systems engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2

Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

6 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat Case Western Reserve University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in systems engineering. Located in the large city of Cleveland, Case Western is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in systems engineering from Case Western Reserve University

Best Systems Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best systems engineering colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Ohio	252	19
Illinois	241	73
Indiana	235	0

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Systems Engineering Related Rankings by Major

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

Systems Engineering Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Systems Engineering	92

Majors Similar to Systems Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	6,256
Electrical Engineering	2,869
Computer Engineering	2,643
Civil Engineering	1,983
Chemical Engineering	1,772
Biomedical Engineering	1,368
Industrial Engineering	1,265
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	757
General Engineering	523
Agricultural Engineering	409

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to luis gomes. More about our data sources and methodologies.