2025 Best Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
5
Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
142
Associate Degrees
Engineering Technology is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #87 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 5 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 142 associate degrees in engineering technology during the 2022-2023 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Engineering Technology School for Your Associate Degree
The engineering technology 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 include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of various 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 engineering technology students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of engineering technology students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
- 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 engineering technology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for engineering technology students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Engineering Technology Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Engineering Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.