2025 Best Pre-Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
2Colleges in the Plains States Region
137Associate 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.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Pre-Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 137 associate degrees in pre-engineering 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 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 complete 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 picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Pre-Engineering Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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
