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 reviewed 3 schools in Utah to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of mechanical engineering. Combined, these schools handed out 96 master's degrees in mechanical engineering to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Mechanical Engineering School for Your Master's Degree
The me master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality me program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Earnings
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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools 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 is difficult to beat University of Utah if you want to pursue a master's degree in mechanical engineering. U of U is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Salt Lake City.
Soon after graduation, me master's recipients typically make about $73,500 in the first five years of their career.
Brigham Young University - Provo is one of the finest 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 medium-sized city of Provo.
Mechanical Engineering master's degree recipients from Brigham Young University - Provo get an earnings boost of about $5,130 above the average earnings of mechanical engineering graduates.
It's difficult to beat Utah State University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in mechanical engineering. Located in the small city of Logan, USU is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Students who graduate with their master's from the me program state that they receive average early career earnings of $75,791.
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).