2024 Best Systems Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region
8Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
423Systems Engineering Degrees Awarded
$82,300Avg Early-Career Salary
Systems Engineering is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #160 out of the 395 majors across the country that we analyze each year. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
College Factual reviewed 8 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of systems engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 423 degrees in systems engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of systems engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Systems Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Systems Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Systems Engineering in the Great Lakes Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the systems engineering degree levels they offer.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Systems Engineering
It is difficult to beat University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign if you want to pursue a degree in systems engineering. Located in the small city of Champaign, UIUC is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #34 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UIUC is a great university overall.
There were approximately 77 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at UIUC in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the systems engineering program earn about $61,753 in their early career salary.
Case Western Reserve University is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a degree in systems engineering. Case Western is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Cleveland. A Best Colleges rank of #63 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Case Western is a great university overall.
There were approximately 14 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at Case Western in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat University of Michigan - Ann Arbor if you want to pursue a degree in systems engineering. U-M is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Ann Arbor. A Best Colleges rank of #29 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means U-M is a great university overall.
There were approximately 89 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at U-M in the most recent year we have data available. Those systems engineering students who get their degree from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor receive $20,547 more than the standard systems engineering graduate.
University of Wisconsin - Madison is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in systems engineering. Located in the large city of Madison, UW - Madison is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #30 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UW - Madison is a great university overall.
There were about 10 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at UW - Madison in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Terre Haute, Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
There were roughly 1 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology in the most recent data year.
UM Dearborn is a medium-sized public university located in the city of Dearborn. This university ranks 17th out of 57 schools for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were roughly 19 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at UM Dearborn in the most recent data year.
Oakland is a large public university located in the large suburb of Rochester Hills. This university ranks 11th out of 57 colleges for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were approximately 11 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at Oakland in the most recent data year.
Located in the small city of Southfield, Lawrence Tech is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 19th out of 57 schools for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were about 11 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at Lawrence Tech in the most recent data year.
Located in the large city of Chicago, DePaul is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. This university ranks 7th out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were about 1 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at DePaul 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).
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Your choice of systems engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Systems Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
