Arlington, TX (population: 385,024) has three engineering schools within its city limits. CCI Training Center, the highest ranked school in the city with an engineering program, has a total student population of 250. It is the 1721st highest ranked school in the USA and the 77th highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University).
Engineering students from Arlington schools who go on to become engineers, audio engineers, aerospace engineers, automotive engineers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 2,412,730 people working as architecture and engineering employees alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $73,590. Also, Aerospace engineers make on average $96,270 per year and there are about 70,570 of them employed in the US today.
Arlington lies in Tarrant county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the Fort Worth-Arlington Metropolitan area has 856,430 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.1% unemployment rate, $19.78/hr average worker wage, and a $41,140 average annual salary.
Of the 3 engineering schools in Arlington, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, ITT Technical Institute-Arlington comes out as the most expensive ($22,295/yr) for engineering students, with The University of Texas at Arlington as the lowest, reported at only $12,392/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Arlington |
| Grand Prairie | TX | 167,767 | 3 | 23.6315 | 22 | 6.4 miles |
| Mansfield | TX | 51,237 | 5 | 21.6558 | 95 | 8.3 miles |
| Forth Worth | TX | - | 3 | 11.7915 | 4 | 11.4 miles |
| North Richland Hills | TX | 67,133 | 1 | 26.4697 | 12 | 12.9 miles |
| Fort Worth | TX | 751,149 | 10 | 30.6263 | 324 | 12.9 miles |
| Irving | TX | 206,798 | 5 | 26.9216 | 138 | 15.0 miles |
| Grapevine | TX | 51,993 | 0 | - | 0 | 17.0 miles |
| Keller | TX | 41,437 | 0 | - | 0 | 17.6 miles |
| Dallas | TX | 1,304,930 | 38 | 20.246 | 638 | 22.1 miles |
| Flower Mound | TX | 72,721 | 0 | - | 0 | 23.6 miles |
| Carrollton | TX | 130,013 | 4 | 29.2073 | 85 | 24.7 miles |
| Lewisville | TX | 108,843 | 0 | - | 0 | 25.7 miles |
| Mesquite | TX | 134,509 | 2 | 15.1606 | 53 | 31.3 miles |
| Garland | TX | 220,597 | 5 | 20.3828 | 26 | 32.8 miles |
| Plano | TX | 282,016 | 1 | 11.5039 | 67 | 33.3 miles |
| University | MS | - | 1 | 33.9448 | 106 | 33.4 miles |
| Denton | TX | 127,364 | 2 | 47.1819 | 284 | 36.0 miles |
| Frisco | TX | 114,533 | 0 | - | 0 | 36.3 miles |
| Rowlett | TX | 57,581 | 0 | - | 0 | 37.0 miles |
| Allen | TX | 90,456 | 0 | - | 0 | 39.5 miles |
| Corsicana | TX | - | 1 | 14.4403 | 62 | 56.4 miles |