2023 Most Popular Colleges for General Mechanical Engineering in New Hampshire

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General Mechanical Engineering is the 14th most popular major in the country with 46,178 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across New Hampshire, there were 125 general mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended General Mechanical Engineering Major in New Hampshire” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general mechanical engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful general mechanical engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended General Mechanical Engineering Major in New Hampshire

The colleges and universities below are the best for new hampshire general mechanical engineering students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for General Mechanical Engineering in New Hampshire

1

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

#2 overall quality in New Hampshire

$42,868 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,111 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended General Mechanical Engineering Major in New Hampshire. Durham, New Hampshire is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s general mechanical engineering degrees to 112 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read full report on General Mechanical Engineering at UNH

2

Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, New Hampshire

#3 overall quality in New Hampshire

$46,640 Average Early-Career Earnings

$28,070 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern New Hampshire University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended General Mechanical Engineering Major in New Hampshire. Southern New Hampshire University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Manchester, New Hampshire. It awarded 13 ’s general mechanical engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Mechanical Engineering at SNHU

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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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Michel Villeneuve.