The main focus area for this major is General Mechanical Engineering. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Mechanical Engineering is a major offered under the engineering program of study at University of Central Florida. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in ME, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.
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Each year, we produce a number of different types of college rankings to help students decide which school is the best fit for them. The bachelor's program at UCF was ranked #105 on College Factual's Best Schools for ME list. It is also ranked #2 in Florida.
Here are some of the other rankings for UCF.
Out-of-state part-time undergraduates at UCF paid an average of $749 per credit hour in 2019-2020. The average for in-state students was $212 per credit hour. The average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $4,478 | $19,810 |
Fees | $1,890 | $2,657 |
Books and Supplies | $1,200 | $1,200 |
On Campus Room and Board | $10,300 | $10,300 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $4,970 | $4,970 |
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One way to think about how much a school will cost is to look at how much in student loans that you have to take out to get your degree. Students who received their bachelor’s degree at UCF in ME walked away with an average of $22,600 in student debt. That is about the same as the national average of $22,913.
ME who receive their bachelor’s degree from UCF make an average of $62,954 a year during the early days of their career. That is about the same as the national average of $61,915.
Online degrees for the UCF ME bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the UCF Online Learning page.
Of the students who received their bachelor’s degree in ME in 2019-2020, 15.8% of them were women. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 16.3%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in ME at UCF in 2019-2020, 44.9% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 28%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 38 |
Black or African American | 23 |
Hispanic or Latino | 122 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 1 |
White | 243 |
International Students | 7 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 27 |
Mechanical Engineering students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Mechanical Engineering | 461 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to mechanical engineering.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering | 184 |
Civil Engineering | 127 |
Computer Engineering | 108 |
Electrical Engineering | 135 |
Environmental Engineering | 28 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.