2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Mechanics in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 Southeast region, there were 43 engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,144 and $27,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Southeast 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree engineering mechanics students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Mechanics in the Southeast Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #1 spot on the list. Virginia Tech is a public institution located in Blacksburg, Virginia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 10 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% 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 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Southeast Region list. Georgia Tech is a public institution located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national 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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- *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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