Bachelor's degree · Engineering · CIP 14.19
Mechanical Engineering: earnings and debt by college
The College Scorecard lists 401 colleges that award bachelor's degrees in Mechanical Engineering, together awarding 33,346 of these degrees in the most recent year. At the median institution, graduates who received federal aid earn $75,796 one year after finishing and $96,637 five years after finishing (two separate graduating classes). The median institution's graduates leave with $22,172 in federal student loans.
Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard.
Colleges
401
Degrees awarded per yeariBachelor's degrees the school awarded in this major in the most recent reported year.
33,346
Median earnings, 1 yriMedian earnings of graduates who received federal aid, 1 year after finishing, among those working and not enrolled. The figure here is the median across institutions; branch campuses share their institution's figure and count once.
$75,796
309 reporting
Median earnings, 5 yrsiMedian earnings of graduates who received federal aid, 5 years after finishing, among those working and not enrolled. The figure here is the median across institutions; branch campuses share their institution's figure and count once.
$96,637
294 reporting
Median debtiMedian federal student-loan balance of the program's graduates. Excludes Parent PLUS and private loans. The figure here is the median across institutions; branch campuses share their institution's figure and count once.
$22,172
299 reporting
Compare Mechanical Engineering programs on one chart
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Each dot is one institution's program; branch campuses share their institution's figures and appear as one dot. Dashed lines mark the median for all colleges. Showing 274 of 375; programs missing either value are left out (the Scorecard withholds figures for small programs).
Colleges with a bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering
| Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette · Public | IN | 510 | $82,015 | $104,232 | $16,000 |
| Texas A&M University-College Station College Station · Public | TX | 486 | $82,714 | $106,624 | $19,250 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta · Public | GA | 473 | $77,908 | $105,935 | $21,750 |
| Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park · Public | PA | 385 | $75,796 | $94,999 | $25,000 |
| University of Central Florida Orlando · Public | FL | 376 | $72,878 | $95,427 | $17,500 |
| Iowa State University Ames · Public | IA | 369 | $77,031 | $89,608 | $24,250 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg · Public | VA | 352 | $77,490 | $101,631 | $21,500 |
| Oregon State University Corvallis · Public | OR | 326 | $76,837 | $98,848 | $21,750 |
| University of Maryland-College Park College Park · Public | MD | 302 | $79,754 | $103,699 | $20,500 |
| Colorado School of Mines Golden · Public | CO | 301 | $78,974 | $99,530 | $20,500 |
| Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus · Public | OH | 297 | $84,487 | $99,933 | $18,751 |
| Texas Tech University Lubbock · Public | TX | 293 | $79,884 | $101,705 | $27,000 |
| North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh · Public | NC | 290 | $75,803 | $94,854 | $20,500 |
| California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo · Public | CA | 288 | $86,929 | $116,548 | $17,778 |
| Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe · Public | AZ | 287 | $76,887 | $99,583 | $17,460 |
| The University of Texas at Austin Austin · Public | TX | 283 | $87,333 | $113,489 | $18,319 |
| University of Colorado Boulder Boulder · Public | CO | 283 | $76,354 | $98,220 | $19,500 |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor · Public | MI | 277 | $83,737 | $111,899 | $19,500 |
| University of Florida Gainesville · Public | FL | 269 | $79,537 | $101,945 | $14,624 |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign · Public | IL | 269 | $81,350 | $100,567 | $15,115 |
| Michigan State University East Lansing · Public | MI | 262 | $82,932 | $103,956 | $21,499 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison · Public | WI | 254 | $79,801 | $98,620 | $19,500 |
| California State University-Long Beach Long Beach · Public | CA | 247 | $72,415 | $103,068 | $13,339 |
| Northeastern University Boston · Private nonprofit | MA | 244 | $87,504 | $114,647 | $22,463 |
| Oklahoma State University-Main Campus Stillwater · Public | OK | 244 | $76,961 | $93,856 | $22,789 |
| Washington State University Pullman · Public | WA | 237 | $78,276 | $99,944 | $19,579 |
| California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Pomona · Public | CA | 234 | $82,531 | $105,438 | $17,039 |
| The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa · Public | AL | 231 | $81,064 | $98,527 | $23,500 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester · Private nonprofit | MA | 231 | $81,313 | $100,884 | $26,869 |
| Clemson University Clemson · Public | SC | 227 | $75,999 | $94,412 | $20,500 |
| University at Buffalo Buffalo · Public | NY | 226 | $73,286 | $91,157 | $19,250 |
| University of California-Berkeley Berkeley · Public | CA | 213 | $95,340 | $121,029 | $11,175 |
| Kennesaw State University Kennesaw · Public | GA | 212 | $73,863 | $94,900 | $25,000 |
| Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla · Public | MO | 212 | $76,975 | $95,854 | $22,604 |
| University of California-Irvine Irvine · Public | CA | 208 | $75,741 | $102,266 | $13,000 |
| University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati · Public | OH | 204 | $76,667 | $92,887 | $18,500 |
| Colorado State University-Fort Collins Fort Collins · Public | CO | 203 | $79,424 | $100,806 | $20,500 |
| Auburn University Auburn · Public | AL | 197 | $74,357 | $100,720 | $21,000 |
| University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte · Public | NC | 197 | $72,283 | $94,880 | $21,468 |
| Brigham Young University Provo · Private nonprofit | UT | 196 | $77,785 | $98,286 | $11,000 |
| University of Connecticut Storrs · Public | CT | 196 | $78,973 | $95,568 | $21,500 |
| University of Massachusetts-Lowell Lowell · Public | MA | 195 | $77,498 | $100,790 | $26,070 |
| University of Houston Houston · Public | TX | 190 | $79,753 | $100,152 | $20,500 |
| California State University-Northridge Northridge · Public | CA | 189 | $75,759 | $101,918 | $14,198 |
| Utah State University Logan · Public | UT | 188 | $72,131 | $94,058 | $15,000 |
| University of Georgia Athens · Public | GA | 187 | $76,188 | $95,514 | $14,942 |
| San Diego State University San Diego · Public | CA | 186 | $77,287 | $102,337 | $15,000 |
| University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles · Public | CA | 186 | $86,008 | $116,719 | $13,315 |
| University of California-San Diego La Jolla · Public | CA | 180 | $77,655 | $109,743 | $14,459 |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark · Public | NJ | 179 | $72,917 | $96,625 | $19,062 |
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Quick facts: Mechanical Engineering
- How many colleges offer a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering?
- The College Scorecard lists 401 colleges that award bachelor's degrees in Mechanical Engineering.
- How much do Mechanical Engineering graduates earn?
- Across institutions, the median of graduates' median earnings is $75,796 one year after graduation (309 institutions reporting) and $96,637 five years after graduation (294 institutions reporting). These figures cover graduates who received federal aid and are working and not enrolled in school. Branch campuses share their institution's figures, so each institution counts once.
- Where do Mechanical Engineering graduates earn the most five years after graduation?
- By reported median earnings five years after graduation: University of Pennsylvania ($139,684), Duke University ($133,628), Cal Poly Maritime Academy ($131,566), Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($130,762), and Johns Hopkins University ($128,823).
- How much student debt do Mechanical Engineering graduates have?
- The median institution's Mechanical Engineering graduates leave with $22,172 in federal student loans (299 institutions reporting). Parent PLUS and private loans are not included.
- Which colleges award the most Mechanical Engineering degrees?
- By bachelor's degrees awarded in the most recent year: Purdue University-Main Campus (510), Texas A&M University-College Station (486), Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus (473), Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus (385), and University of Central Florida (376).
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How these numbers work
Figures cover bachelor's degree programs in Mechanical Engineering (CIP code 14.19), as reported in the College Scorecard. Earnings are medians for graduates who received federal aid, measured one and five years after they finished, among those working and not enrolled in school; the one-year and five-year figures describe different graduating classes. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation. The Scorecard withholds figures for programs with few graduates, so many smaller programs show n/a. Summary figures are medians across institutions: the Scorecard reports program earnings and debt for a whole institution, so branch campuses share one figure and count once. All figures are from the Scorecard's most recent field-of-study release. More on the data.