2025 Best Pre-Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
248Associate Degrees
If you pursue a associate degree in pre-engineering, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #67 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of pre-engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 248 associate degrees in pre-engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Pre-Engineering School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of pre-engineering for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality pre-engineering program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to pre-engineering students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of pre-engineering students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
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 schools 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 in the Southwest Region 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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
Your choice of pre-engineering for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality pre-engineering program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
