2023 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Mechatronics, Robotics, & Automation Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Mechatronics, Robotics, & Automation Engineering is the 408th most popular major in the country with 1,243 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 402 mechatronics, robotics, and automation engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 mechatronics, robotics, and automation engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in mechatronics, robotics, and automation engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful mechatronics, robotics, and automation engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Doctorate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Doctorate”.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Mechatronics, Robotics, & Automation Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#2 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Carnegie Mellon University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Doctorate list. This fairly large school is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 21 doctorate’s mechatronics, robotics, and automation engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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Capitol Technology University
Laurel, Maryland

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Capitol Technology University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Doctorate list. This small school is located in Laurel, Maryland, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s mechatronics, robotics, and automation engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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• Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Mechatronics, Robotics, & Automation Engineering

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.