When it comes to popularity, a master's degree in manufacturing engineering sits in the middle of the road, ranking #169 out of 343 majors in the country. 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 looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Manufacturing Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 108 master's degrees in manufacturing engineering to qualified students.
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Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other manufacturing engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a master's 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.
Student Debt - How much debt manufacturing engineering students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized manufacturing engineering related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for manufacturing engineering students working on their master's degree.
The manufacturing engineering 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 Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region.
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It is hard to beat Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus if you wish to pursue a master's degree in manufacturing engineering. Georgia Tech is a fairly large public school located in the city of Atlanta.
Master's students who receive their degree from the manufacturing engineering program earn around $118,763 in the first couple years of their career.
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.
