2024 Best General Mechanical Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Washington
3
Colleges in Washington
168
Master's Degrees
Ranked #24 in popularity,
general mechanical engineering is one of the most sought-after master's degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Washington to determine which ones were the best for general mechanical engineering students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 168 master's degrees in general mechanical engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great General Mechanical Engineering School for Your Master's Degree
The general mechanical engineering master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general mechanical engineering students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other general mechanical engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general mechanical engineering related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general mechanical engineering students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank General Mechanical Engineering Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Mechanical Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Washington list to help you make the college decision.