When it comes to popularity, a bachelor's degree in manufacturing engineering sits in the middle of the road, ranking #203 out of 363 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Manufacturing Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Texas ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 60 bachelor's degrees in manufacturing engineering to qualified students.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on manufacturing engineering students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other manufacturing engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
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.
Student Debt - How much debt manufacturing engineering students go into to obtain their bachelor'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 complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for manufacturing engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Manufacturing Engineering Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Manufacturing Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Texas list to help you make the college decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
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Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in manufacturing engineering needs to look into Texas State University. Located in the city of San Marcos, Texas State is a public university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the manufacturing engineering program earn about $68,886 in their early career salary.
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.
by our College Data Analytics Team
