Ranked #29 in popularity, mechanical engineering is one of the most sought-after master's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Mechanical Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Utah ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 104 master's degrees in mechanical engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to mechanical engineering students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other mechanical engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt mechanical engineering students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized mechanical engineering related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for mechanical engineering students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Mechanical Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Utah ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Mechanical Engineering in Utah
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in mechanical engineering.
It's hard to beat University of Utah if you wish to pursue a master's degree in mechanical engineering. U of U is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City.
Mechanical Engineering master's degree recipients from University of Utah receive an earnings boost of about $5,946 above the average income of mechanical engineering graduates.
Brigham Young University - Provo is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in mechanical engineering. BYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Provo.
Students who graduate with their master's from the me program state that they receive average early career income of $84,461.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
