2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Mechanics in the Great Lakes Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$64,526
Avg Salary
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Engineering Mechanics is the 308th most popular major in the country with 262 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , engineering mechanics graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $64,399 and had an average of $25,500 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 88 engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,526 and $23,500 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 61 engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,415 and $23,858 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in engineering mechanics. That schools that top this list have a program in engineering mechanics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree engineering mechanics students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Mechanics in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Madison, Wisconsin, this large public school awarded 33 degrees to qualified bachelors’s engineering mechanics students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Engineering Mechanics at University of Wisconsin - Madison
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a large school located in Champaign, Illinois that handed out 28 bachelors’s engineering mechanics degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Engineering Mechanics Report
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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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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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