2025 Best Pre-Engineering Associate Degree Schools
11Colleges in the United States
1,833Associate Degrees
Ranked #67 in popularity, pre-engineering is one of the most sought-after associate degree programs in the nation. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 11 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for pre-engineering students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 1,833 associate degrees in pre-engineering to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Pre-Engineering School for Your Associate Degree
The pre-engineering associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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 pre-engineering students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other pre-engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
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 pre-engineering related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for pre-engineering students working on their associate degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Pre-Engineering Associate Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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).