The main focus area for this major is General Mechanical Engineering. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Mechanical Engineering is a major offered under the engineering program of study at The University of Texas at Austin. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in ME, including such details as the number of graduates, ethnicity of students, related majors and concentrations, and more.
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If you're having trouble deciding which school is best for you, you may want to check out our many college rankings. UT Austin is in the top 10% of the country for ME. More specifically it was ranked #21 out of 326 schools by College Factual. It is also ranked #1 in Texas.
Here are some of the other rankings for UT Austin.
Out-of-state part-time undergraduates at UT Austin paid an average of $1,795 per credit hour in 2019-2020. The average for in-state students was $542 per credit hour. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $11,448 | $40,032 |
Books and Supplies | $714 | $714 |
On Campus Room and Board | $12,286 | $12,286 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $4,480 | $4,480 |
Learn more about UT Austin tuition and fees.
One way to think about how much a school will cost is to look at how much in student loans that you have to take out to get your degree. ME students who received their bachelor’s degree at UT Austin took out an average of $21,850 in student loans. That is 5% lower than the national average of $22,913.
ME who receive their bachelor’s degree from UT Austin make an average of $72,413 a year during the early days of their career. That is 17% higher than the national average of $61,915.
Online degrees for the UT Austin ME bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the UT Austin Online Learning page.
About 27.1% of the students who received their BS in ME in 2019-2020 were women. This is higher than the nationwide number of 16.3%.
Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 49.1% of the ME bachelor’s degrees at UT Austin in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 28%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 65 |
Black or African American | 7 |
Hispanic or Latino | 50 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 2 |
White | 128 |
International Students | 6 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 15 |
Mechanical Engineering students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Mechanical Engineering | 273 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to mechanical engineering.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering | 168 |
Architectural Engineering | 34 |
Biomedical Engineering | 131 |
Chemical Engineering | 180 |
Civil Engineering | 144 |
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*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.