2025 Best Manufacturing Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
2Colleges in the Plains States Region
118Associate Degrees
If you pursue a associate degree in manufacturing engineering technology, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #90 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Manufacturing Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 118 associate degrees in manufacturing engineering technology during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to manufacturing engineering technology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of manufacturing engineering technology students who choose to seek a associate 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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized manufacturing engineering technology related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for manufacturing engineering technology students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Manufacturing Engineering Technology Schools
The manufacturing tech 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 Manufacturing Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region.
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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).