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2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region

1 Ranked Colleges

18 Degrees Awarded

$37,100 Avg Cost*

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology is the 201st most popular major in the country with 3,490 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,242 mechanical engineering/mechanical technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 mechanical engineering/mechanical technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.

That schools that top this list have a program in mechanical engineering/mechanical technology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree me tech students.

Top 1 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology in the Great Lakes Region

Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

#1 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Tech Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the #1 spot on the list. Northwestern University is a large school located in Evanston, Illinois that handed out 18 masters’s me tech degrees in 2021-2022.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 99%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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Notes and References

References

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 our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

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Footnotes

*Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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