2025 Best General Mechanical Engineering Schools in Kentucky
3Colleges in Kentucky
397General Mechanical Engineering Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in general mechanical engineering, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #14 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Kentucky to determine which ones were the best for general mechanical engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 397 degrees in general mechanical engineering annually.
Choosing a Great General Mechanical Engineering School
The general mechanical engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Mechanical Engineering rankings. For our Best Overall General Mechanical Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
General Mechanical Engineering Rankings by Degree Level
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 Schools in Kentucky list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for General Mechanical Engineering in Kentucky
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the general mechanical engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Kentucky Schools in General Mechanical Engineering
It is difficult to beat University of Kentucky if you want to pursue a degree in general mechanical engineering. Located in the large city of Lexington, UK is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #220 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UK is a great university overall.
There were about 196 general mechanical engineering students who graduated with this degree at UK in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat University of Louisville if you wish to pursue a degree in general mechanical engineering. UofL is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Louisville. This university ranks 2nd out of 39 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were roughly 155 general mechanical engineering students who graduated with this degree at UofL in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat Western Kentucky University if you want to pursue a degree in general mechanical engineering. WKU is a large public university located in the city of Bowling Green. This university ranks 6th out of 39 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were about 46 general mechanical engineering students who graduated with this degree at WKU in the most recent year we have data available.
Rankings in Majors Related to General Mechanical Engineering
General Mechanical Engineering is one of 0 different types of Mechanical Engineering programs to choose from.
Notes and References
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).